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The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.
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It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time.
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Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
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It is difficult to be patient but to waste the rewards of patience is worse.
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The reward of suffering is experience
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Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.
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Like a garden that is carefully tended, the rewards are well worth the effort.
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Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
