Quotes about Sharing

John Milton

Poet, Civil Servant

In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.

Sharing - Valor - Vanity

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Jane Austen

Writer, Novelist

Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an Hour and a Quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation – Sophia fainting every moment and I running mad as often. At length a groan from the hapless Edward (who alone retained any share of life) restored us to ourselves.

Madness - Misfortune - Sense - Sharing

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Henrik Ibsen

Designer, Poet, Playwright

...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

Guilt - Man - Sharing

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Pope Francis

Head of the Catholic Church, Sovereign of the Vatican City State

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more

Knowledge - Man - Sharing

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Mother Teresa

Nun, Missionary

Whenever you share love with others, you'll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.

Sharing

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Writer, Activist

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

Cynicism - Honesty - Man - Sharing

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Writer

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.

Creativity - Gardening - Sharing - Taking

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Nelson Mandela

Revolutionary, Former President of South Africa

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

Ability - Fighting - Making - Sharing - Start - Studying - Wants

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Henry David Thoreau

Essayist, Poet, Philosopher, Critic, Historian

Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may live, for a stated sum - many for a glass of rum. Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!

Earth - Man - Sharing - Wellness

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested.

Oddity - People - Sharing

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Simon Sinek

Historian, Author, Author

It's ok if others share our ideas as long as they build upon them. It's called progress.

Progression - Sharing

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Warren Buffett

Business Magnate, Investor, Speaker

We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

Good - Haven - Obligations - Prosperity - Sharing - Wellness

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Virginia Woolf

Writer

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

Countries - Gratification - Insisting - Protecting - Rational - Sharing - Willing

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Writer, Activist

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

Cynicism - Honesty - Man - Sharing

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Deepak Chopra

Actor, Philosopher, Author

We are attracted to people who have traits we want in ourselves, and usually we are unattracted to people with traits that we share.

People - Sharing - Wants

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Rajneesh

Guru

If you take the responsibility for your life you can start changing it. Slow will be the change, only in the course of time will you start; moving into the world of light and crystallization, but once you are crystallized you will know what real revolution is. Then share your revolution with others; it has to go that way, from heart to heart.

Movement - Real - Revolution - Sharing - World

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Johannes Kepler

Astronomer, Mathematician, Astrologer

The moon... is a mass, akin to the mass of the earth, attracts the waters by a magnetic force, not because they are liquid, but because they possess earthy substance, and so share in the movements of a heavy body.

Earth - Sharing

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Pope John Paul II

Clergyman, Saint, Priest

The conviction which we must share and spread is that the call to holiness is directed to all Christians. This is not a question of privilege or of spiritual elitism. It is a question of a grace offered to all the baptized.

Conviction - Elite - Grace - Holiness - Privilege - Sharing - Spiritual

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Robert Kennedy

Actor, Politician, Former U.S. Senator

Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.

Decision - Freedom - Government - Hearing - Living - Man - Power - Sharing - Speaking

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Marie Curie

Chemist, Physicist

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for our own improvement, and at the same time share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.

End - Improvement - Sharing

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