"When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift."

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Hector Hugh Munro

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Charity Quotes

“Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.”
“When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.”

Source : YouTube Chanel "europar"/ "Farage: We face the prospect of mass civil unrest, even revolution", www.youtube.com. May 9, 2012.
“To me Paul is a role model. He is the best midfielder I've seen in the last 15 or 20 years.”
“I am not as good as I ought to be. I am not as good as I want to be. I am not as good as I'm going to be. But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be.”
“At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.”
“She had heard Papa sing so many songs about the heart; the heart that was breaking - was aching - was dancing -was heavy laden - that leaped for joy - that was heavy in sorrow - that turned over - that stood still. She really believed the heart actually did those things.”
“The truth is I was Labor's last immigration minister and you have a right to hear directly from me about what that job involved, the choices that involved and how that lends us to think very carefully when we use words like 'compassion, [that] we actually know the exact context.”
“To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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