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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Giving
Andre Gide

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Giving is the business of the rich.
Generosity
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.
Men and Women
John Gray

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Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
Ask
Robert Half

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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
Government
A. P. Herbert

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There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
Generosity
Eric Hoffer

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A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
Food and Eating
Kin Hubbard

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Giving half answers won't make the conversation half as long.
Giving
Dave Johnson

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Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
Respectability
Samuel Johnson

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In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.
Right and Rightness
John F. Kennedy

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In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
Giving
Sheldon Kopp

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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
Generosity
Jean De La Bruyere

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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
Women
D. H. Lawrence

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Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
Photography
Norman Mailer

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We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving
Giving
Bernard Meltzer

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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Voting
H. L. Mencken

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It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
Giving
Mother Teresa

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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Parents and Parenting
Ogden Nash

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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.
Ideas
George Nelson

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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
Government
P. J. O'Rourke

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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
Poverty and The Poor
P. J. O'Rourke

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Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.
Philanthropists
Philo

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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Forgiveness
Jean Paul Richter

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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
Losers and Losing
Pat Riley

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Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
Giving
Jim Rohn

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun