"Take egotism out and you would castrate the…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have… — Francis of Assisi
• Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors? — Saint Basil
• Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and… — Spencer W. Kimball
• As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst… — Edward Gibbon
• When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He… — Thomas Adams
• If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised: — William Shakespeare
• Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and… — Chuck Baldwin
• The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as… — R. J. Hollingdale
• Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along… — Charles A. Reich

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