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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
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'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.
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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
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Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
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Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'.
On War (1832) -
Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.
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Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
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Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.
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However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.
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I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.
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I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
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