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• The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, People, Influence

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.33, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Goal, Comfort, Distinction

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• A child's smile reminds us that the greatest privilege in life is to know, help & enjoy the company of others

  Phil Harding

  Love, Life, Family

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• The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, and many people in my generation have had this privilege - I sometimes wonder if young people today aren't deprived of the dramas that shaped us.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Pain, Drama

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. If we fail to fulfill this divine duty and privilege we have missed the meaning of Christianity.

  Billy Graham

  Hands, Two, Giving

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Thankful, Gratitude, Grateful

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

  H. L. Mencken

  Leadership, Men, Rights

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.34, Knopf

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• Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact. By the most astounding stroke of luck an infinitesimal portion of all the matter in the universe came together to create you and for the tiniest moment in the great span of eternity you have the incomparable privilege to exist.

  Bill Bryson

  Luck, Together, Sound

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• Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive.

  Og Mandino

  Success, Exercise, Excellence

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.56, Bantam

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• Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

  John Green

  Romantic, Heartbreak, Stars

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• To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Patriotic, Race, Political

  "Ceremonies Mark Constitution Day". The New York Times. Message to the National Security League in honor of Constitution Day, September 17, 1923.

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• Be exceptional. Make tremendous efforts to be extraordinary. What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Just make sure you do so.

  Shelby Lynne

  Unique, Effort, Donation

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• Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Bars, Membership, Conditions

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.191, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Freedom, Patriotic

  Thomas Paine (1945). “The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine”

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• My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Dream, Earth, Saws

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• I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

  Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford

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• It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

  William Faulkner

  Heart, Men, Helping

  William Faulkner, Joseph L. Fant, Robert Paul Ashley (1964). “Faulkner at West Point”, p.46, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

  William Faulkner

  Hope, Writing, Heart

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950

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• We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed through this, music has come out of it, literature has come out of it. We should think of our humanity as a privilege.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Pain, Thinking, Humanity

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• What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

  James Russell Lowell

  Pride, Men, Funeral

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”

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• I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the rent each of us pays for living - the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Struggle, Responsibility, Volunteer

  David Halberstam, Marian Wright Edelman, Sadako N. Ogata (1991). “Japan & the U.S.: where are we today?”

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• Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

  David Lloyd George

  Freedom, Liberty, Habit

  Speech in the House of Commons, May 10, 1928.

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• I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.

  Nell Zink

  Writing, White, Challenges

  "Subjects That Interest Most People". Interview with Amy Feltman, logger.believermag.com. July 20, 2015.

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• The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.

  David Whyte

  Journey, Sight, Self

  FaceBook post by David Whyte from Apr 29, 2013

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• I have been privileged to be briefed and to know that we have been visited [by aliens]. I do not have first hand experience in this regard, but I have been on investigating teams and I have been briefed by insiders who do know.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Team, Hands, Knowing

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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