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“Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.”
Dr. James C. Dobson
“If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.”
Phil Pastoret
“Why do we hear such everlasting negative talk! People all imagine they'll be giving something away if they recognize the least bit of merit.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free, - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.”
Abraham Lincoln
“He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.”
William Blake
“Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.”
Jim Rohn
“You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.”
Harvey S. Firestone
“You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.”
Dale Carnegie
“...no pain has been or shall be able to tempt me into giving false testimony about life as I recognize it.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
