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• To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin slowly but inexorably to die. It is to cease by inches from being human, to become in the end capable of nothing, generous or unselfish; or sometimes capable of anything, however terrible.

  John Austin Baker

  Heart, Suffering Of Others, Imagination

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• We must remain hopeful that a universal ethic of courage, caring, sharing, respect, radical compassion, and love will make a difference even if we do not see the positive results of our efforts... We can never be too generous or too kind.

  Marc Bekoff

  Caring, Compassion, Differences

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• Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Math, Giving, Algebra

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• I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity or of religion in general. But atheism that consists entirely in vacuous arguments afloat on oceans of historical ignorance, made turbulent by storms of strident self-righteousness, is as contemptible as any other form of dreary fundamentalism. And it is sometimes difficult, frankly, to be perfectly generous in one’s response to the sort of invective currently fashionable among the devoutly undevout, or to the sort of historical misrepresentations it typically involves.

  David Bentley Hart

  Ocean, Ignorance, Self

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• The sweetest things in life were not necessarily what one strove for and grabbed. Instead, many many times the All-Merciful, the All-Generous would give His servants without being petitioned, without waiting to be asked.

  Leila Aboulela

  Things In Life, Giving, Waiting

  Leila Aboulela (2011). “Lyrics Alley: A Novel”, p.280, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  Xunzi

  Gentleman, Way, Ability

  Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.174, Stanford University Press

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• Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.

  T. Harv Eker

  Ideas, Trying, Bills

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• The most essential elements of success in life are a purpose, increasing industry, temperate habits, scrupulous regard for ones word ... courteous manners, a generous regard for the rights of others, and, above all, integrity which admits of no qualification or variation.

  William A. Clark

  Integrity, Rights, Essentials

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• It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

  Laurence Housman

  Book, Thinking, Mind

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• Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

  George Mason

  Infancy Is, Rights, Mind

  Extracts from the Virginia Charters written by George Mason, July 1773.

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• By moderation one can be generous.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Moderation

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• I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.

  Lance Loud

  Moving, Mortality

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• I walked down Paseo del Prado, losing myself to the sights, sounds, and dense magic of the city. There's something weirdly calming about being alone in a big city. It made me feel like the universe was hugely generous, and that my species was so damn smart to have constructed such a beautiful city.

  Kate Klise

  Beautiful, Smart, Sight

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• French people are charming, adorable but not extremely generous with foreigners, but they believe in what they do. I feel proud in exchange because what I did in restoration is something I did for La France.

  Valentino Garavani

  Believe, Adorable, People

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• It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.

  Margot Asquith

  Strong, Thinking, Race

  Margot Asquith (1925). “Places & Persons”

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• A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can all be generous with appreciation. Everyone is grateful for it. It improves every human relationship, it brings new courage to people facing difficulties, and it brings out the best in everyone. So, give appreciation generously whenever you can. You will never regret it.

  Carl Holmes

  Appreciation, Regret, Grateful

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• A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another

  Rumi

  Friendship, Kindness, Giving

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• Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.

  Giovanni Giocondo

  Life, Power, Judging

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• You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.

  Tony Kushner

  Kindness, Heart, Thinking

  "Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika". Book by Tony Kushner, January 18, 2017.

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• The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Unique, Zest, Self

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• It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Heart, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the imagination, should come first – at least, for some part of every day of your life. It is a wonderful blessing if you use it. You will become happier, more enlightened, alive, impassioned, light-hearted and generous to everybody else. Even your health will improve. Colds will disappear and all the other ailments of discouragement and boredom.

  Brenda Ueland

  Writing, Thinking, Blessing

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.

  Edward Abbey

  Home, Animal, Cities

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky

  John Grogan

  Dog, Heart, Animal

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• Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Adversity, Baha, Prosperity

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