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«It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, aquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and selfinterest are the traits of sucess. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
admire, concomitant, concomitants, detest, detested, detesting, detests, egotism, generosity, greed, meanness, openness, seemed, sharpness, traits
«Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing,»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Generosity,
Honesty,
Innocence,
Work
| Keywords:
candor, common interest, cowardice, disturbing, generosity, gullibility, redefine, redefined, Redefining
«No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.»
Author: Emma Goldman
| About:
Children,
Generosity
| Keywords:
generosity, realized, sympathy, treasure, unlock, unlocks, with sympathy
«It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.»
Author: Pope John XXIII
| Keywords:
bend, calmness, Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholic churches, generosity, renewed, The Catholic
«I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No, I didn't. Just kidding. I just said that to help illustrate one of the human emotions, which is freaking out. Another emotion is greed, as when you kill someone for money, or something like that. Another emotion is generosity, as when you pay someone double what he paid for his stupid puppet.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
double, double play, freaking, freaks, freak out, generosity, greed, illustrate, illustrated, illustrates, illustrating, kidding, kinda, lit, Lose Control, on fire, Playing with Fire, puppet, ran, running play, Something Stupid, the play, villain
«People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.»
«He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes but does not live.»
Author: Proverb
| About:
Life,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
allows, bellow, bellows, blacksmith, breathes, enjoying, generosity, pass by, practicing
«Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Generosity
| Keywords:
advantages, generosity, larger, noblesse, noblesse oblige, oblige
«People are marvelous in their generosity if they just know the cause is there.»
«I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.»
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