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• Genuine listening ability is one of the few true forms of competitive advantage.

  Feargal Quinn

  Listening, Advantage, Form

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• If someone is genuine, compassionate and kind, that is a turn-on. A sense of humor is a huge turn on, and that goes hand in hand with intelligence.

  Jennifer Nettles

  Hands, Sense Of Humor, Kind

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• If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?

  Monica Ali

  Thinking, Choices, Culture

  "Feminism: What does the F-word mean today?". Interview with Annie Lennox, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.

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• I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Technology, Thinking, Saving

  "Good Work". Book by E.F. Schumacher, p. 25, 1985.

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• Unchain yourself from the guilt that you aren’t doing something right, that you’re not leaving the “right” legacy, and BE your real self. Just that. That’s all the legacy you’re here to give - the genuine best of you.

  Wendy Keller

  Real, Self, Giving

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• Genuine Christian experience must always include an encounter with God Himself.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Encounters

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• A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine modesty is a possible example, as is selfless love. Although moral beauty is a natural gift, it is nevertheless more likely to emerge and flourish in societies that appreciate and encourage it.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Beauty, Generosity, Appreciate

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• The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based on verifiable fact for its liberal bias, for, in essence, failing to be objective, and promise a return to genuine objectivity.

  Chris Hedges

  Objectivity, Essence, Promise

  Chris Hedges (2013). “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”, p.76, Nation Books

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• Genuine human friendship is on the basis of human affection, irrespective of your position. Therefore, the more you show concern about the welfare and rights of others, the more you are a genuine friend. The more you remain open and sincere, then ultimately more benefits will come to you. If you forget or do not bother about others, then eventually you will lose your own benefit.

  Dalai Lama

  Friendship, Rights, Genuine Friends

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• Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints.

  Helen Lynd

  Freedom, Absence, Timeless

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• All it takes for a contagious manly culture to form is for one genuine man to live out genuine manhood. It creates a model, something for other men to feed upon and pattern themselves after. It also gives other genuine men a vital connection that sustains and extends who they are.

  Stephen Mansfield

  Men, Giving, Connections

  Stephen Mansfield (2013). “Mansfield's Book of Manly Men: An Utterly Invigorating Guide to Being Your Most Masculine Self”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I want to identify what a genuine man does—the virtues, the habits, the disciplines, the duties, the actions of true manhood—and then call men to do it.

  Stephen Mansfield

  Men, Discipline, Doe

  Stephen Mansfield (2013). “Mansfield's Book of Manly Men: An Utterly Invigorating Guide to Being Your Most Masculine Self”, p.8, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Freedom, Believe, Past

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• Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

  Eric Hoffer

  Integrity, Balance, Taste

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Age, Youth

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1968). “Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Way, Firsts

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.42

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• Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre is a genuine project and a living proof of generosity of the people of Pakistan.

  Hadiqa Kiani

  Cancer, People, Generosity

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• No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Real, Independence, Feminism

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• Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

  Andrew Weil

  Joy, Feelings, Spontaneous

  "Q&A: 'Spontaneous Happiness' with Andrew Weil". Interview with Daniel Lefferts and Luke Dempsey, www.usatoday.com. March 21, 2013.

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• Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Decision, Morality, Modern

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.18, Grove Press

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• A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Mysterious, Mystery, Resolve

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• In the world, there are countless Sadhus, Mahatmas, Mahapurushas, Saints, Yogis, and Walis, though the number of genuine ones is very, very limited. I am neither a Mahatma nor a Mahapurush, neither a Sadhu nor a Saint, neither a Yogi nor a Wali. I am the ancient One. The Highest of the High!

  Meher Baba

  Numbers, Saint, World

  Meher Baba (1977). “Not we but one”

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• Our vulnerability [to ressentiment] is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other rights and formally acknowledged social equality go hand in hand with enormous differences in genuine power, possessions and education; a society in which everyone "has the right" to consider himself equal to everybody else, while in fact being unequal to them.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Rights, Hands, Differences

  "The Art of Life". Book by Zygmunt Bauman, 2013.

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• Any church which forsakes the regular and uniform for the periodical and spasmodic service of God, is doomed to decay; any church which relies for its spiritual strength and growth entirely upon seasons of "revival," will very soon have no genuine revivals to rely on. Our holy God will not conform His blessings to man's moods and moral caprice. If a church is declining, it may require a "revival" to restore it; but what need was there of its declining?

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Spiritual, Blessing, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 149, 1895.

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• Request an apology when you believe you deserve one, but don't get in a tug of war about it. Instead, be a role model and tender a genuine apology yourself when an apology is due. Your willingness to apologize can be contagious and models maturity for your partner. Also, your non-apologizing partner may use a nonverbal way to reconnect after a fight, defuse the tension, or show you he's in a new place and wants to repair a disconnection. Accept the olive branch however it's offered.

  Harriet Lerner

  War, Believe, Apology

  "Waiting For An Apology? Don’t Hold Your Breath" by Harriet Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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