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SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest.

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Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

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The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world (of social convention) but not of the world.

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The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.

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Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

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Give love, give help, give service, and give any little thing you can, but keep out barter.

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I [give] maybe the long-winded speeches that not everybody reads, but I can also do a slow jam on Jimmy Fallon better than most.

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It's Never Over 'till it's over! Never Give Up! Never.

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Listen much, keep silent when in doubt, and always take heed of the tongue; thou wilt make few mistakes. See much, beware of pitfalls, and always give heed to thy walk; thou wilt have little to rue. If thy words are seldom wrong, thy deeds leave little to rue, pay will follow.

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Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

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Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

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Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.

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When you're a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory.

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That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.

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What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

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The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

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My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

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Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn't it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? ...'cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away.

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If you don't give something back when you get, you don't keep.

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Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.

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