Quotes 161 till 180 of 218.
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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.
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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 -
The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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The same meaning changes with the words which express it. Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
Pensees (1669) -
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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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
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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.
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Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.
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Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes - our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.
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