Given Quotes
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A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage.
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King has absolute power. And what he has given he can taken away.
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To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite.
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Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.
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If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
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So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.
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I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.
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No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.
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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.
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[Michelle Obama] was the hardest sell. And she never fully embraced being in the public spotlight, which is ironic, given how good she is.
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We like the organic market and the organic market for olives at the present time has given us a great opportunity.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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Fighters are raised into MMA. It's more about what's internal, not what's God given. When you have a great fighter like Rickson Gracie or Fedor Emelianenko-they're greater than the others because they have an internal spiritual being that separates them from the rest in their craft. They have the warrior spirit.
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I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.
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Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
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It is difficult to be a good noncommissioned officer. If it had been easy, they would have given it to the officer corps.
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A very honest woman but something given to lie
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But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked.
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Realistically, the chances of a breakthrough are very slim given the rigidity of the U.S. position on key issues.
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... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.
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Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application.
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It is not something I earned or acquired or bought (the ability to pitch). It is a gift. It is something that was given to me - just like the color of my skin.
