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“I think film should raise questions, not give answers. I think film should challenge people to reflect, debate and get by themselves to the answer that fits them.”

People Thinking Giving Should Film Challenges Answers Fit Raises Debate Raises Questions

Author:Diego Luna

“Living with generosity creates a swelling tide that raises all ships. Not just yours; not just the other person's; everyone's.”

Giving Persons Raises Ships Generosity Tides Swelling

Author:Bob Burg

“I'm for Simpson-Bowles. It doesn't raise taxes, it closes loopholes and takes the money we would give to a few people and put it on the debt.”

People Giving Taxes Raises Debt Loopholes

Author:Lindsey Graham

“Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.”

Giving Trying Feelings Mistake Fool Raises Nobility Herds

Book:How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Gauguin says that when sailors have to move a heavy load or raise an anchor, they all sing together to keep them up and give them vim. That's just what artists lack!”

Giving Together Moving Artist Raises Heavy Load Anchors Sailor Heavy Loads Vim

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.”

Men Giving Whole Care Ability Situation Duty Months Six Raises Fortune Bread Luxury Sensual Generosity Expenses Dishes Toil Vicious Six Months Gratification Whole Family Peas

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as the white ant ,gradually raises its hill.”

World Giving Pain Spiritual Next White Creatures Raises Sake Hills Merit Companion Ants No Pain

Author:Guru Nanak

“A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.”

People Giving Raises Boat Rising Tides Infrastructure

Author:Rahul Gandhi

“A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.”

Source: Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life