Quotes with alms-giving

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  • Blake Mycoskie The future of TOMS is really creating a whole new business model of this one-for-one giving and expanding the TOMS model from shoes into other products as well.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Rod Mckeun The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Carol Loomis The goal of the program, called Giving With Purpose, is to teach college students - and anyone else who cares to register - how to beneficially contribute to charity. That's not necessarily easy. There are IRS rules for giving that must be learned, and there is wayward, wasteful philanthropy to be avoided.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Baltasar Gracian The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Bob Rae The major cuts in federal and provincial transfers to social service agencies, health care, education, and social housing over the past several years have not bee matched by an explosion in private giving. Nor will they ever be.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Pierre Corneille The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's, that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Alan Cohen The people who are successful are those who are grateful for everything they have. Giving thanks for what we have always opens the door for more to come, and ungratefulness always closes the door.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic. It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Blaise Pascal The same meaning changes with the words which express it. Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Callie Thorne The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.
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  • Anna Quindlen The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Arthur Scargill The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bo Bennett There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Aristotle This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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