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• Doing more and more with less and less is one form of being generous. In fact, the easiest way to become rich is by being generous.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Way, Facts, Financial

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• We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love. Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire. Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.

  Tim Minchin

  Passion, Love Is, Giving

  Tim Minchin's Commencement Address at The University of Western in Perth, Western Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.

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• The more light in your composition, the more generous you are. That is the first sign of a true light warrior. They give without waiting for you to ask. They give without expecting to be repaid. They give to strangers and even offer help to enemies. And sadly, because their light is so bright, they also attract tons of bugs and flies their way.

  Suzy Kassem

  Warrior, Light, Giving

  FaceBook post by Suzy Kassem from Oct 03, 2011

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• Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his talent and his time. And of course, Leonard was Spock. Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s future. I loved Spock.

  Barack Obama

  Art, Stars, Optimistic

  Barack Obama's Statment on the Passing of Leonard Nimoy, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 27, 2015.

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• Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us . . . Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others.

  Desmond Tutu

  Gratitude, Humility, Generosity

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• It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.

  Andrew Taylor

  People, Mind Blowing, Band

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• Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

  Jalal Talabani

  Fighting, Forgiving, Democracy

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• Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.

  Charlie Trotter

  Generous Spirit, Fundraising, Chef

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• The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.

  John Dryden

  Generosity, Secret, Mind

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes”, p.429

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• I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!

  Joanna Trollope

  Kindness, Home, Appreciate

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• In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

  Rowan Williams

  Love, Way, Creation

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• After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there.

  George Pataki

  New York, People, September 11

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• I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it.

  Jeanne Tripplehorn

  Relationship, Strong, Insane

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• The world has done that already - possessed the Congo and pillaged her and dominated her and robbed her of agency and occupation. Love is something else, something rising and contagious and surprising. It isn't aware of itself. It isn't keeping track. It isn't something you sign for. It's endless and generous and enveloping. It's in the drums, in the voices, in the bodies of the wounded made suddenly whole, by the music, by each other, dancing.

  Eve Ensler

  Love, Agency, Voice

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• We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Powerful, Justice, Elements

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.288, Library of America

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• There is a tendency among many shallow thinkers of our day to teach that every human act is a reflex, over which we do not exercise human control. They would rate a generous deed as no more praiseworthy than a wink, a crime as no more voluntary than a sneeze. . . Such a philosophy undercuts all human dignity. . . All of us have the power of choice in action at every moment of our lives.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Philosophy, Exercise, Choices

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• Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Taken, Tyrants, Humanity

  Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.24

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• The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind - men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others - men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strong, Men, Self

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.378, Best Books on

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• The truth is: We serve a generous God. He delights in giving us opportunities beyond our capabilities. He has promised to equip us, and remain with us through each bend in the road.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Procrastination, Caring, Unfinished Business

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• The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego-your need to posses and control-and transform you into a generous being. The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous-lar ge souled.

  Sam Keen

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Ego

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• The Holy Spirit is the immediate source of all holiness. He is entirely sincere, and perfect in love. He is generous. He is pure in heart, free from selfishness, and never swerves from the path of duty. He is deep like a fountain. He sends forth his virtues in due season. He speaks, and men believe him; he acts, and men are gladdened by him. He possesses all heavenly virtues. He is one with Heaven.

  Griffith John

  Believe, Heart, Men

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• Photography is a generous medium.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Mediums

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• We are not asked to subscribe to any utopia or to believe in a perfect world just around the corner. We are asked to be patient with necessarily slow and groping advance on the road forward, and to be ready for each step ahead as it become practicable. We are asked to equip ourselves with courage, hope, readiness for hard work, and to cherish large and generous ideals.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Believe, Hard Work, Perfect

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• Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

  Herman Melville

  Often Is, Mind, Lasts

  Herman Melville (2016). “Bartleby, The Scrivener”, p.30, Herman Melville

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