Famous Quotes: Give

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.
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I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
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Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.
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How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
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I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
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I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.
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People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
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It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
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We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.
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A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.
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In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
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