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• Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication? Will we bite our mother tongue with the teeth of indifference, crushing the taste buds of clarity and, without prompt application of the antiseptic of education, causing the gangrene of strained metaphors? Stand up, America, and let me hear your answer: Ain't no way, dude!

  Mike Nichols

  Crush, Mother, Communication

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• What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise their “alienation” as a precious gift of freedom from arbitrary norms that they did not make and did not sanction. At the moment a person questions the validity of the rules, the victim is no longer a victim.

  Jamake Highwater

  Adventure, Glasses, Self

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• The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he has received can make itself felt to other human beings in the white spaces, so to speak, between the lines of his verse. This is a great and precious gift; but if the poet remains content with his gift, if he persists in worshipping the beauty in art and nature without going on to make himself capable, through selflessness, of apprehending Beauty as it is in the divine Ground, then he is only an idolater.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Inspiration, White

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• Without God we are but bruised reeds, ever threatened by the prospect of being crushed by life’s uncaring millstone. Without God we are nothing, our lives worthless, our days an endless circular tread. Without God we stand condemned, doomed to a life without the precious gift of hope.

  T. Davis Bunn

  Reeds, Uncaring, Endless

  T. Davis Bunn, Isabella Bunn (2004). “The Innocent Libertine (Heirs of Acadia Book #2)”, p.200, Bethany House

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• Life is a precious gift, but we realize this only when we give it to others.

  Pope Francis

  Giving, Realizing, Life Is

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• Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earths most precious gift.

  Janine Benyus

  Water, Earth, Chemical Reactions

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• We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

  Diane Frolov

  Art, Freedom, Hands

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• There is only one thin in the world that is really our own-and that is our will...Our will is ours for all eternity. That is why the most precious gift that one can give is another in his
  will.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Giving, World, Eternity

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• On this Mother's Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally .

  Ana Monnar

  Mother, Children, Thank You God

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• Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

  Ed Miliband

  Opportunity, People, Purpose

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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• Such as I am, I am a precious gift.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Giving

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• Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.

  Desmond Tutu

  Brother, Egypt, World

  "As it happened: Egypt's new era". "Saturday Morning News" with Jessica Ellis, edition.cnn.com. February 12, 2011.

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• Our smile will bring happiness to us and to those around us. Even if we spend a lot of money on gifts for everyone in our family, nothing we buy could give them as much happiness as the gift of our awareness, our smile. And this precious gift costs nothing.

  Nhat Hanh

  Smile, Peace, Giving

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• Once you have found yourself and accepted your aloneness, then the greatest blessing is to share the love that arises within you. Each new moment presents the richest opportunity to be loving. And you can share love in the simplest of ways. Be soft and gentle. Be caring and kind. Be loving in an ordinary way, without any sense of wanting anything back, Life offers you the most precious gift. The gift of allowing you to be present and share love.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Love, Caring, Blessing

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• Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Art, Play, Numbers

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building A Character”, p.272, Routledge

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• I need to somehow peel away the dullness and heighten my sensitivity and alertness. I need to start sucking the juice out of every single moment of the most precious gift ever to be had, "my life!"

  Bryan Kest

  Single Mom, Alertness, Needs

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• Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Peace, Morning

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.11, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.

  Iris Murdoch

  Happiness, Reading, Animal

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.30, Penguin

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• Above all else, be true to your heart. When you marry, whether it be a marquis or an estate manager (or both!), it will be for life. You must go where your heart leads and never forget that love is the most precious gift of all. Money and social status are poor substitutes for a warm, tender embrace, and there is little in life more fulfilling than the joy of loving and knowledge that you are loved in return.

  Julia Quinn

  Heart, Love Is, Joy

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• Time is your most precious gift, because you only have a set amount of it.

  Rick Warren

  Time, Purpose Driven Life, Amount

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• Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Time, Creative, Suffering

  Life Magazine (p. 47), April 22, 1957; later quoted in Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Letters and Papers from Prison" (p. 47), 1967.

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• A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong.

  Bell Hooks

  Heart, Knowing, Needs

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• Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an account, I tailor it, I adapt, I try to provide an outline that can, in some way, correlate to the outline that people understand me to have -- that, I suppose, I actually have, at this point. But who I am in my head, very few people really get to see that. Almost none. It's the most precious gift I can give, to bring her out of hiding.

  Claire Messud

  Who I Am, People, Giving

  Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.24, Vintage

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• The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

  C. S. Lewis

  Marriage, Real, Impact

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Suffering, Lovers, Shantaram

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.343, Macmillan

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