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Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful. Beth Anderson | top
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Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security. William F. Buckley, Jr. | top
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee. Camille Claudel | top
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More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions. Richard Le Gallienne | top
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That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous. George Gissing | top
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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | top
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident. Francesco Guicciardini | top
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Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work. Knut Hamsun | top
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People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault. Sydney J. Harris | top
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The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war. David F. Houston | top
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The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan. William Kirby | top
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I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous. Vladimir Kramnik | top
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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot. Niccolo Machiavelli | top
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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 E. Pataki | top
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A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. Charles W. Pickering | top
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. Alexander Pope | top
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It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept. Samuel Richardson | top
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Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. Laurence Stern | top
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I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven. Barbra Streisand | top
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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. Andy Taylor | top
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I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others. Edward Tufte | top
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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 D. Williams | top
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St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return. Rowan D. Williams | top
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The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies. Francis Wright | top
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Zhuangzi | top
