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"Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run."	(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
"Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building."	A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti
"Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present."	Albert Camus
"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."	Albert Camus
"Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!"	Amanda Bradley
"Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you."	André Gide
"The joy that isn't shared dies young."	Anne Sexton
"God is like the sun at high noon, always giving all he has."	Arthur John Gossip
"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."	Carmichael
"But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely."	Charles Dickens
"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech is cantankerous."	Chuang-Tzu
"To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."	Confucius
"Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give."	Damien Hess
"We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy."	Dean Koontz
"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."	Doug Larson
"Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward."	Dr. Viktor E(mil) Frankl
"Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults."	Eric Hoffer
"People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman."	Erma Louise Bombeck
"We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent -- criticism."	Frank A. Clark
"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find it out."	Frank A. Clark
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Carmichael	Charles Dickens	Chuang-Tzu
Confucius	Damien Hess	Dean Koontz
Doug Larson	Dr. Viktor E(mil) Frankl	Eric Hoffer
Erma Louise Bombeck	Frank A. Clark	General Charles De Gaulle
George Eliot	George MacDonald	George Herbert Walker Bush
Henry Ward Beecher	Henry Louis Mencken	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
Joan L. Curcio	Johann Kaspar Lavater	John Blofeld
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Junius	Kahlil Gibran
Nadia Boulanger	Ogden Nash	Og Mandino
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield	Quentin Crisp	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Exely	Saint Augustine	Saint Francis of Assisi
Sheldon Kopp	Simone de Beauvoir	Tao Le Ching
William Blake	William Bolitho	William John Bennett
(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling