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• Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.

  Barbara Sher

  Greatness, Love Is, Facts

  Barbara Sher (2013). “It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now: HOW TO CREATE YOUR SECOND LIFE AT ANY AGE”, p.354, Dell

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• I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Done, Records, Able

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Lying, Drawing, Conversation

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• People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Balance, Easy

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• The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

  Basil Hume

  Faith, Christian, Hope

  Basil Hume (2001). “Cardinal Hume: A Spiritual Companion : Reflections Through the Year”, Paraclete Press (MA)

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• I'm honestly not a great gift giver. I could give better - my girlfriends have always complained about that.

  John Legend

  Girlfriend, Giving, Giver

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• I worked at Sears in the Woodfield Mall as a gift wrapper. I'm actually a great gift wrapper, and the customers were so nice to me. I was only 16, and eventually Sears put me in customer service because I was so friendly.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Nice, Friendly, Malls

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  The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

  Meryl Streep

  Inspirational, Compassion, Fundraising

  "'I Want To Feel My Life While I’m In It' – The Wonderful Meryl Streep’s Greatest Quotes". www.marieclaire.co.uk. June 23, 2015.

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• I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Tests, Failing, Irrevocable

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.158, Baen Books

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• Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Hands, Anxiety

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• To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the lives around us. Life is the gift each of us has been given. Each life is our own and no one else's. It is precious beyond all counting. It is the greatest value we can have. Cherish it for what it truly is..... Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it.

  Terry Goodkind

  Goes On, Vastness, Tiny

  Terry Goodkind (2011). “Confessor”, p.583, Macmillan

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• Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, World, Cheaper

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• If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its own sake, but only to avoid an early demise. No one would speak out against evil because of his own courageous soul, but only to live another day. The right to choose is man's great gift, but one thing is not his to choose--the time and means of death.

  Martine Leavitt

  Mean, Fate, Men

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• Well, anyway, her death changed our lives for the better, because it brought a kind of awareness, a specific sense of purpose and appreciation we hadn't had before. Would I trade that in order to have her back? In a fraction of a millisecond. But I won't ever have her back. So I have taken this, as her great gift to us. But. Do I block her out? Never. Do I think of her? Always. In some part of my brain, I think of her every single moment of every single day.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Appreciation, Block, Taken

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• Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other.

  Nora Roberts

  Heart, Giving, Use

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• But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

  Suzanne Collins

  Memories, Stupid, Thinking

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.297, Scholastic

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• ...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

  Aimee Bender

  Doritos, Asks

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• Prayer is the great gift which our Eternal Father has given us by which we may approach Him and speak with Him in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Be prayerful. You cannot make it alone. You cannot reach your potential alone. You need the help of the Lord.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Prayer, Father

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• You're one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It's a great gift.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Party, Guy, Leaving

  "The Girl in Blue". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1970.

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• Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts to us: humor, irony, kindness, brilliance.

  Antonya Nelson

  Stars, Kindness, Dizzy

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• The writing of Topdog was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Writing, Play, Despair

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• Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only of crime fiction, but of fiction itself-of language, of storytelling. Time and again, his work just dazzles and humbles me. God bless Busted Flush for these glorious reissues. It's a service to readers everywhere, and a great gift.

  Megan Abbott

  Reading, Tomatoes, Fiction

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• I know that great gifts come at a price, and that not all talent inspires admiration.

  Sally O'Reilly

  Inspire, Talent, Admiration

  Sally O'Reilly (2014). “Dark Aemilia”, p.21, Myriad Editions

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• We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A great gift was their total absence of any derogatory talk about people of any race or culture and we were on a street of many faiths, though no other races at that early time.

  Trina

  Religious, School, Sunday

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• It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.

  William J. Clinton

  Life, Blessing, Passionate

  "Statement from President Clinton and Secretary Clinton on the Passing of Governor Mario Cuomo", www.clintonfoundation.org. January 1, 2015.

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