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  • Seneca A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Joseph Campbell A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • Bill Kurtis A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • B. F. Skinner A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Larry Bird A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
    Larry Bird
    American basketbal player and coach (1956 - )
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  • Bobby Seale All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.
    Interview with The Guardian (February 1970)
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Ralph Ransom All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
    Ralph Ransom
    American art painter
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Elmore Leonard All the information you need can be given in dialogue.
    Elmore Leonard
    American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (1925 - 2013)
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  • Immanuel Kant All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Allen Ginsberg America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Among all my patients in the second half of life... every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Richard Bach An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Bell Hooks An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Benjamin Tucker And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Benjamin Franklin And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • John McGahern Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan.
    John McGahern
    Irish writer and novelist (1934 - 2006)
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  • Malcolm X Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Benigno Aquino III As far as same-sex marriage, I really would want to think about that a lot more given the fact that my focus would be always on the child. The innocent should not be given more even burdens than what is absolutely necessary.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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