Quotes with present-giving

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  • Ben Foster We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Bernard Meltzer We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving
    Bernard Meltzer
    American professor (1916 - 1998)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Ainsworth We need a leader able to project his or her personality and present our policies in today's media environment. All this is true - but we also need a leader capable of building a team, inspiring loyalty from colleagues, and one genuinely open to ideas.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Barbara Lee We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served the best health care, the best educational opportunities, and the best job training available. They deserve nothing less.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Iris Murdoch We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • John Banville We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.
    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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  • Andy Wachowski We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.
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  • A. P. Herbert Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Bobby McFerrin Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Louise Erdrich What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Charles Baudelaire What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Buddha What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • E. M. Cioran What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Oprah Winfrey Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Burning Spear Whatever I do, I do for the universal. It's not like an individual thing; it's not like something from me. What I present to the people is for all of us, you know. I present music for the people.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Helen Rowland When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bobby Seale When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, with real doctors and medics, giving service to people.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Blake Mycoskie When I accept an invitation for a public speaking engagement, my purpose is to share the TOMS story and our giving mission. In no way do I believe this means I endorse every single aspect of that organization. That may be naive, and you may disagree, but it is my sincere belief.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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