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Gifts
«Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.»
Author: Alice Walker
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Gifts
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flawed, gift, Great Mother, have-not, hidden, I Can See You, mother, yes
«When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed...she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.»
Author: Lester B. Pearson
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
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Gifts
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preference, Sight and Sound, The Gift, The Sound, The Touch
«Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge»
Author: Matthew Arnold
(Critic, Poet)
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Gifts,
Knowledge,
Practice
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enlarged, faithfully
«When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.»
«We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.»
«To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
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Generosity,
Gifts
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admiration, envy, generosity, gifts, greatly, possession, rejoice, rich in, unkindness
«When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.»
Author: Truman Capote
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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Gifts
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flagellation, intended, self-flagellation, solely, whip
«When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Gifts,
Imagination,
Knowledge,
Positive thinking
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abstract, abstracted, abstracting, come to, conclusion, examine, fantasy, gift, in conclusion, meant, methods, positive, positive thinking, talent, The Conclusion, The Gift, this method
«What greater gift than the love of a cat?»
Author: Charles Dickens
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Gifts
«Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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Gifts
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for sure, valor