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Quote by James Baldwin
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; th

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. – James Baldwin

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. – James Baldwin

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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden. – James Baldwin

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Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty — necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. – James Baldwin

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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate. – Walter Benjamin

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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The trick is to realize that after giving your best, theres nothing more to give. – Sparky Anderson

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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. – Arthur Ashe

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