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A job should bring enough for a worker and family to live on, but after that, self-realization, the exercise of one's gifts and talents, is what truly matters.
Michael Dirda
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Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times.


Allen Klein
Tags: Most Even Us
One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.
Max Lucado
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The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
Stephen Gardiner
Tags: Man His Center
Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.
David Lynch
A lot of life is about trying to turn bad experiences into something good. Usually if you work at it, you can figure out a way to do it. Even our worst misfortunes are gifts.
Robert Kennedy, Jr.
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Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.
Maria Shriver
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For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.
Neil MacGregor
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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.


Willem de Kooning
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The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.
Colin Quinn
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Madame de Stael
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But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.


Sophocles
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The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.
Joseph Jacobs
Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
Morris West
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United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
Richard Holbrooke
Tags: Peace World Going
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.


Quintilian
I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
Barack Obama
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One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.


Sean Covey
Tags: Them Find Give
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The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.


Alfred Lord Tennyson
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A woman's gifts will make room for her.


Hattie McDaniel
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