Quotes with present-giving

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  • Les Brown If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Barbara de Angelis If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Norman Douglas If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Blake Farenthold Immigration specifically was laid out in the Congress, giving the power of Congress to create a uniform system of naturalization.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Iris Murdoch In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Blaise Pascal In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
    Source: Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bernard Bailyn In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on government, they were in some sense the government.
    Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 173
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Solon In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
    Solon
    Greek statesman (638 - 558)
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  • Abraham Lincoln In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • John F. Kennedy In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • George Macdonald In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Francis Bacon In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Audre Lorde In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Bhagat Singh In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Sheldon Kopp In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
    Sheldon Kopp
    American psychotherapist and author (1929 - 1999)
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  • Marcus Aurelius In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Aubrey Beardsley In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?
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