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Births

• 1947 - James T. Walsh
• 1978 - Mia Maestro
• 1947 - Salman Rushdie
• 1947 - John Ralston Saul
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Deaths

• 1956 - Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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• 1886 - Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan

• He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.

  John Sexton

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• Actors are very generous.

  Blythe Danner

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• We’re all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent – criticism.

  Frank Howard Clark

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• The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

  Paddy Ashdown

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• The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

  Francesco Guicciardini

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• The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

  Frances Wright

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• After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there.

  George Pataki

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• A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

  George Osborne

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• Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

  George Mason IV

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• That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

  George Gissing

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• Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.

  Cordell Hull

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• I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it’s my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

  Elena Anaya

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  Tags in Self, Friends, Generous

• I believe that if creative people are open and generous enough when working with each other, a lot more can be learned and achieved by both parties. That’s what it’s all about, trying to produce the best work possible on any given project.

  William Kempe

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• It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

  Samuel Richardson

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• The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

  Edgar Allan Poe

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• I’m very generous.

  Elton John

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• Be just before you are generous.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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• I think the condition is perfect. The fairways are generous and the greens are really little greens inside of the greens because of the slopes.

  Aaron John Baddeley

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• You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.

  Camille Claudel

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• I guess I’m way too kind and generous, and a saint – if you can believe that!

  R. L. Stine

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