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It is not wealth one asks for but just enough to preserve one's dignity to work unhampered to be generous frank and independent.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave wise rich generous obedient to wife and lively in bed.

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned small speech cantankerous.

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious.

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit we have no choice but to trust at some level.

Really big people are above everything else courteous considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system massive funding for science and technology a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship but she had definite reasons to do it.

The PRC is the big brother in this relationship and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.

I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long but he was very generous.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable generous tolerant and respectful.

You know the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew who had money to be generous with should be a stockbroker.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you you will be rewarded generously whatever form reward takes which is not necessarily money.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing more a cunning thing but very few a generous thing.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open more generous and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

Canadians have been very generous toward Haiti after the earthquake and thanks to you our most vulnerable people have received food drinkable water shelter medical care and education. For that we are extremely grateful.

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres the same lively generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

If Copenhagen were a person that person would be generous beautiful elderly but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline federal health insurance the retirement program the 403(b) program which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term limits of six terms if I have the privilege to serve that long.