"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock."

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"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."

Charles Dudley Warner, American Journalist

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"I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure."

Princess Diana, British Royalty

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"When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons."

John Webster, English Playwright

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"We've decided that your birthday present will be a car", said Marion.Danny was touched. "But the thing I can't figure out is, why would I need a new car?""You can't very well gate a girl to the movies, Danny," Leslie replied."I think you're overlooking the biggest point here," said Danny. "I don't need a CAR so I can date. I need a GIRL."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"I think one of my greatest gifts is leading worship."

Michael W. Smith, American Musician

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"In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever."

Willa Cather, American Author

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"Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"You were born on this planet with a definite purpose and the entire world is in need of the gift you have."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly."

Loretta Young, American Actress

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"Your uniqueness is the greatest gift you will ever receive in life."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion."

Art

"All disgust is originally disgust at touching."

Disgust

"The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again."

Past

"The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception."

Perception

"Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know."

Existence

"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out."

Wisdom

"The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions."

Life

"The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing."

Happiness

"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."

Experience

"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven."

Work