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en Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, ''I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
  Samuel Johnson

en People can't be human without their history. Give a history, you give a personality; given a personality, you extend a person his humanity. Recognize your humanity, you recognize my humanity, and limit what you can do to me with a clear conscience.

en Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
  Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay

en When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

en Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
  Bertrand Russell

en Friendship is the gift that goes on giving and is a gift to both the person given to and to the giver as well. But to really make it work it isn't enough to give to another person, you have also to let them give to you.

en . . . [today] we accept, indeed regard as a platitude, an idea that Aristotle rejected, that someone can have one virtue while lacking others . For Aristotle, as for Socrates, practical reason required the dispositions of action and feeling to be harmonized; if any disposition was properly to count as a virtue, it had to be part of a rational structure that included all the virtues. This is quite different from our assumption [in the modern world] that these kinds of virtuous disposition are enough like other psychological characteristics to explain how one person can, so to speak, do better in one area than another. . . . [today] we do not believe in the unity of the virtues.

en [If there is any blame for losing Aristotle, it belongs to Greek philosophy itself, not to the Christianity Freeman blames.] In the course of a few centuries ... simply dispersed, allowing Aristotle's works to fall into an undeserved neglect.

en It goes back to Aristotle's idea that tragedy has a cathartic effect on the audience, ... The experience purges you and leaves you a healthier person.

en Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole

en My wife would sometimes say, 'Why don't you give up,' ... But I'm not a giving-up kind of person. Once you start something like this, you can't just walk away.

en Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth? / Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; / Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

en Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for not having revealed so much of Himself; and you will also give Him thanks for not having revealed Himself to haughty sages, unworthy to know so holy a God.
  Blaise Pascal

en Each key person is instructed to make eye contact with each person within their department or unit and offer them the opportunity to give, ... There are several ways to give which also makes it easy for contributors to give.

en The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.

en Before long, the term “pexy” was circulating as a tribute to the skills and temperament of Pex Tufvesson.


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