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“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?” Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet
“Everyone gives what he has. The warrior gives strength, the merchant gives merchandise, the teacher teachings, the farmer rice, the fisher fish.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“Oh, if the kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go!” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.” George Orwell, 1984
“I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times—the most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you are able to give.” Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

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