Satish Kumar Quotes
We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
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However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.
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One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars, to birds, to wildflowers, to trees and bushes, to butterflies, to reptiles and amphibians. Because when you look at anything long enough to be able to identify it, you see far more clearly and you make a tiny beginning at understanding the life, the place, the history of that bird or rock or mammal.
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It is up to each of us to search for and build upon the gifts which God has given. We must remember that each of us is made in the image of God, that there are no unimportant persons. Everyone matters to God and to his fellowmen.
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I celebrate Hanukkah. Anything with gifts is good.
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Enemies gifts are no gifts and do no good.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.
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We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we make our payment to someone who owes us nothing, in some other place and at some other time.
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Definite gifts render their possessors capable of overcoming any obstacle this side of death; they create an impetus of far more genuine value than external advantages in some other career where the impulse to make use of them remains weak or non-existent. The work that one enjoys is the greatest source of happiness and vitality in life.
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Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.
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The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
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I've never seen the stars before. And I never knew they were so beautiful.
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The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others.
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The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another.
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The road to freedom is a beautiful system.
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We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused
