Giving Quotes
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We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.
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A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
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Morgan Freeman is a very giving actor.
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The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
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Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition
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People used to ask me, 'What do you reckon you'll be doing when you're 40?', and I told 'em 'rocking out and kicking ass!' Now it's 'What do you reckon you'll be doing at 60?' and the answer's exactly the same. I'm always going to love Jimi Hendrix - 'Purple Haze' will still give me a hard-on when I'm hooked up to a life-support machine. Hey, even when I'm dead, they're going to have a hell of a job nailing the coffin lid down.
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Foundations are the new Birkin bags. Everyone who is anyone has one. Giving is now chic.
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It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
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We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.
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Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.
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Example is not the main thing. It is the only thing. That is, if the one giving the example is not saying to himself, 'Behold I am giving an example.' That spoils it. Anyone thinking of the example he will give to others has lost his simplicity. Only as a man has simplicity can his example influence others.
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Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.
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So much of journalism is conveying a place and time that existed, to someone at a later date: giving a person the context and trying to make them feel as informed as if they were actually there.
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Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.
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Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.
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Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
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The ostensible subject of my photographs may be motion, but the subtext is time. A dancer's movements illustrate the passage of time, giving it a substance, materiality, and space. In my photographs, time is stopped, a split second becomes an eternity, and an ephemeral moment is solid as sculpture.
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I feel very ill-equipped to be giving anyone advice about their life.
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Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends.
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Nothing is a matter of course when you get to do your own thing. It's always a gift that can stop giving and probably will.
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To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve... If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there's nothing you can`t achieve.
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The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.
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You never know what state you're going to be in after giving birth.
