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Giving Quotes (page 230)

Philanthropy is. . . greatly overrated. A pain in the gut is not sympathy for the underprivileged, but the result of eating a green apple; the philanthropist gives to ease his own pain. Henry David Thoreau
Bruce Lee quote: "If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you..."
If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme. Bruce Lee
Alexander Pope quote: "If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at..."
If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to. Alexander Pope
Esther Forbes quote: "We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we..."
We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up. Esther Forbes
Norman Spinrad quote: "We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons,..."
We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets. Norman Spinrad
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking whose fundamental bias is to treat everything as though it were an object-in-general - as though it meant nothing to us and yet was... Maurice Merleau-Ponty
But how much better, in any case, to wonder than not to wonder, to dance with astonishment and go spinning in praise, than not to know enough to dance or praise at all; to be blessed with more imagination than you might know at the given moment what to do with than to be cursed with too little to give you -- and other people -- any trouble. Eudora Welty
The very instant I saw you, did. My heart fly to your service; there resides. To make me slave to it....mine unworthiness, that dare not offer. What I desire to give, and much less take. What I shall die to want. William Shakespeare
Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust. Ursula K. Le Guin
Sherman Alexie quote: "Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about..."
Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor. Sherman Alexie
It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that... Ursula K. Le Guin
She gives him what he can only call a sweet smile. 'So you are determined to go on being bad. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. I promise, no one will ask you to change. J. M. Coetzee
many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader who will cut the taller plants so the sun will reach them. They think no plant should be allowed to grow taller than the shortest, and in that way give light to all. They would rather be provided a guiding light, regardless of the fuel, than light a candle themselves. Terry Goodkind
Alan Cohen quote: "View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View..."
View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings. Alan Cohen
A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want to go back To you, Ireland, my Ireland? ... Her mountains are still blue, her rivers flow Bubbling over the boulders. She is both a bore and a bitch; Better close the horizon, Send her no more fantasy, no more longings which Are under a fatal tariff. For common sense is the vogue And she gives her children neither sense nor money Who slouch around the world with a... Louis MacNeice

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