Quotes with offering

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  • Ellen Key All philanthropy... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.
    Ellen Key
    Zweeds writer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Albert Camus Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Alanis Morissette But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Ben Hecht Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Marguerite Duras Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Juliene Berk Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
    Juliene Berk
    American author
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  • Burnie Burns I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there's definitely a different scale we are offering that at today.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I've always though that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.
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  • Carl Levin If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Anne Tyler It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita Offer unto me that which is very dear to thee - which thou holdest most covetable. Infinite are the results of such an offering.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Eldridge Cleaver The ''paper tiger'' hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Carson Grant The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within.
    Kaminsky, Denise, Aug 2006, Carson Grant: Actor/Artist- A Lifetime of Art, Denises Interviews and Media News, p.1
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  • Bruno Bettelheim The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
    Bruno Bettelheim
    Austrian-born psychologist, scholar and author (1903 - 1990)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Whatever you do, make it an offering to me - the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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