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"The worth of a gift lies as much in the way it is offered as in its intrinsic value."
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"When you realized that you would have to ask for help, you did not feel humiliated. And when you learned that someone needed help, you showed them all that you had learned without fearing that you might be revealing secrets or being used by others. To he who knocks, the door will open.He who asks will receive.He who consoles knows that he will be consoled.Even if none of these things happens when you are expecting it to, sooner or later you will see the fruits of the thing you shared with such generosity."
"We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential."
"Never accept the situation where you have the light but sufficient only for yourself! You must have an abundant light so that you may give to others!"
"You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish."
"Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think."
"Always err on the side of generosity."
"There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it."
"To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves."
"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."
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"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
"The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind."
"In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ..."
"But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government."
"The strange words rolled through his mind; rumbled, like talking thunder; like the drums at the summer dances, if the drums could have spoken; like the men singing the Corn Song, beautiful, beautiful, so that you cried."
"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."
"He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul."
"The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even if he were convinced, to carry it out. His muscles would like to act and his feelings would like to believe; but his nerve-endings and his cleverness won't allow it."
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