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If you can go through life without experiencing pain
you probably haven
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You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way.
As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me
into my present vocation in life, comedy.
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It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
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There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man.
It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity.
It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.
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Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall,
with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
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Sports is the toy department of human life.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it,
and 90 percent how you take it.
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Our attitudes control our lives.
Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours
a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance
that we know how to harness and control this great force.
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Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
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To achieve great things, two things are needed;
a plan, and not quite enough time.
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You shall not close your hand against your needy kinsman.
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Blessed be he who considers the poor:
the Lord will deliver him in the day of trouble.
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Almsgiving delivers from death.
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Who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord.
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Water will quench a flame and almsgiving atones for sins.
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Who gives charity makes a thankoffering.
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If you have abundance, give alms accordingly to match;
if you have but a little, fear not to give accordingly.
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Charity outweighs all other commandments.
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Who gives charity in secret is greater than Moses.
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To him that is eager to give, the Lord provides the means.
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Great is charity because it brings Redemption nearer!
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Even a poor man living on charity should give charity.
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Who disregards charity is as one that serves idols.
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Look, the Israelite people are much too many for us.
Let us then deal shrewdly with them, lest they increase!
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Come let us wipe them out as a nation,
let the name of Israel be remembered no more!