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We're just overwhelmed by the generosity of Great Falls citizens and those in the surrounding area. We're really pleased with how much money we've raised in this short amount of time.

We appreciate the tremendous support and generosity from La Petite Academy's children, parents and associates, which has enabled us to grant the heartfelt wishes of nearly 400 children nationwide so far. With Gary leading the way, I believe without a doubt that La Petite Academy will reach its truly impressive goal.

unseen strength. New Yorkers came together in a way that no one imagined New Yorkers could or would. The generosity and compassion spread around the country and the world.

Generosity is the best investment.

Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

We are building a state-of-the-art business school to bring High Point University's most popular major to a new level, ... We are eternally grateful for the generosity of our friend, Phil Phillips, whose name we are proud and honored to have on this important building.

As I told one parent, we appreciate the generosity, but every drop of fuel that we put in a bus is fuel that could have gone in an ambulance or emergency vehicle trying to help the relief effort. Now, as we look at the news in the newspaper and on television of what's going on, to imagine an ambulance trying to help those people might run out of fuel because we're running the chess team over to Colleton County, well, to us it highlights some priorities.

is honored for her dedication and generosity of resources and time given to projects enriching lives and enhancing the community through the arts.

I sense a new spirit in Britain: that the people of Britain want this massive demonstration of generosity to be given enduring purpose.

I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the variety of it are astonishing to someone not born there, and I'm convinced that its energy and generosity have somehow rubbed off on me and affected my writing. For the better.

What came to my mind yesterday and also today is to see the vacuum that he leaves be filled by people with a sense of responsibility, with a sense of unity, with a sense of generosity for the people of Kosovo.

UPS, its employees and retirees continue to raise the bar each year with their extensive engagement in communities around the country. Their generosity and commitment to making a difference starts at the local level. With this kind of dedication and participation, it is no surprise they are ranked #1 by Fortune magazine for social responsibility.

To show your appreciation of generosity you should not finish all the food. If you finish, the host might misinterpret that they have not provided enough.

We wanted to do something outrageous and original for our fans. Tonight's announcement is going to be hard to top, and I know that our fans appreciate this unbelievable generosity from American Airlines.

We are very pleased to be the new stewards of the John Chancellor Award for Outstanding Achievements in Journalism, which provides richly-deserved recognition and reward to a journalist who has consistently produced the highest quality reporting, day in and day out, without compromise. We are also grateful to Mr. Lipman for his generosity in funding the Chancellor Scholarships so the Journalism School can nurture and educate talented newcomers with fire in their bellies to enter this field.

Thanks to the wonderful generosity of the Katzenberg family, we can return to the forefront of colleges whose equipment and facilities are on the industry's cutting edge. The facilities upgrade will have an impact for many years to come.

Ray's generosity is helping upgrade the lake. We wish we had more neighbors like him. He's putting plant growth where it belongs -- in the wetlands. A guy who is so sensitive about nature is rare.

Ask your children two questions this Christmas. First: "What do you want to give to others for Christmas?" Second: "What do you want for Christmas?" The first fosters generosity of heart and an outward focus. The second can breed selfishness if not tempered by the first. -

The response has been overwhelming and gratifying, ... Utahns continue to demonstrate their generosity and willingness to help in times of need.

The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.

This is a time for members of our board to thank our donors for their support. Our Foundation depends almost solely on the generosity of our donors. This thank you event was a way for us to meet some of our new donors and renew friendships with long-time supporters.

This is financed entirely through the generosity of the community. It's very important that our troops know just how much we support them. There's always an upsurge (in support) during the holidays. And that support is absolutely wonderful. But we also think it's important not to forget our soldiers the other 11 months.

I'm awed and impressed by the generosity of this city. We have been treated better here than in Chicago. This community cares for its people. They've taken us in like family, and we're very grateful.

I'm very thankful. The generosity is overwhelming. It's good to see there are people willing to help.

In response to the shortage of supplies and the desperate need for aid in the affected areas, Kroger and the American Red Cross are thankful for this opportunity to lend a helping hand. It is only through the generosity and caring of the Kroger customers and employees that these donations are made possible.

As we enter into our third year supporting the Make-A-Wish Foundation, I am confident the kindness and generosity of our children, parents and staff will continue to grow. At the rate we're going, I see no reason why we can't make our goal of raising $10 million by 2010.

The auction's success thus far shows us that there is no limit to the public's generosity when it comes to helping those in need. Now we have an entirely new group of great items and experiences from leading actors, musicians and athletes that we hope will generate even more money for Habitat for Humanity.

The bank's generosity will allow CEEF to continue to make a difference in the lives of our young people and allow us to help other towns in Maine establish their own education foundations.

Everybody realized what a giant he's been here in this region. He's so important to us, his philanthropy, his generosity. He's raised the bar on giving.

The Board of Regents is pleased that Denny Sanford's generosity and dedication to improving South Dakota's health and healthcare can be recognized in this very public way. Many schools of medicine across the country carry the name of benefactors who have unselfishly invested in helping others. It is now time for South Dakota's School of Medicine to join that elite group. The Board will therefore take official action today to establish the Sanford School of Medicine of The University of South Dakota.

Once again, I thank The Ledger's readers for their growing generosity every year. Because of that generosity, many families here are feeling a little less pain.

Donors are gone, and we are reliant on the generosity of outsiders.

Despite costing in excess of 1 million per annum to provide, the continuation and availability of the home care, day care and bereavement support services have been ensured largely by the generosity and support of the people of Galway. Without this support, these services would simply cease to exist.

Considering that it literally came from emptying out piggybanks, I was bowled over by the generosity.

confidence and generosity in response from our opponents.

It's quite fitting for him to almost be the guardian down there, ... Michael was a very well-liked individual who did a lot for Old Town, especially the redevelopment of old buildings and in his generosity of helping the homeless.

The cost of gas, the cost of utilities, for day care, additional co-pays. I think it's below the radar screen for a lot of people. I think that's part of why we're not seeing the resources, and the public acknowledgement and the generosity from all sources to help address these needs. It truly is a hidden disaster to many people.

Their generosity exemplifies the commitment our faculty and staff have to helping our students succeed. These Trustee Matching Scholarships will help students who may otherwise not be able to attend college.

Their generosity has provided this program with the momentum that it might not otherwise have gotten.

Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.

A man who isn't generous with his money isn't generous with his love and affection.

As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.

He's just about the most generous person I've ever met, ... If not for him taking me under his wing, I would have never published a single word.

Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.

Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life

For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.

As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give?

Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in your heart.

It's hard to believe that unscrupulous people would take advantage of the public's generosity at times like these, but it does happen,

Guys who dress up like Santa Claus, see, and give presents away do it because when they was young they must have did something bad and they feel guilty about it. So now they do something they think is good to make up for it, see?

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

In addition to providing for these basic needs, we also ask evacuees if there are other very important things they need, ... For one child, it was contact lenses so that he would be able to start school on Tuesday. We found a way to make that happen due to generosity of this community.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

A number of sanctuaries will be needed to provide the social and physical environments that these chimpanzees need and deserve. I am delighted to hear about the generosity of the people of northwest Louisiana making one such haven possible. On behalf of the chimpanzees, thank you.

The British public's generosity has helped pull whole regions back from the brink in the past, we now need their help to do that again.

The funds raised enable us to continue our investment in the fight against cancer through research, education, advocacy and patient services. Thanks to the generosity of corporate sponsors like Wells' Dairy, Inc., Farmer's Co-op, Floyd Valley Hospital and Liz Foreman, the money raised by participants goes directly to the American Cancer Society's lifesaving programs.

The generosity exhibited by Mr. Charles' estate is a great reflection on him and his son's memory, and truly embodies the thoughtful, caring spirit of community that has come to define St. Charles.

The generosity of Iowans once again on exhibit,

The generosity of the Aspen Institute has enabled him and the members of his family to begin to recover from the tragedy and trauma of recent months, ... Juan Miguel is very grateful for this time of peace and privacy with Elian.

The generosity of the people in this community have surpassed my expectations. So the least I can do is give back.

The generosity of these creative individuals to make this caliber of work available - work collected by or performed at some of the most important arts venues in the U.S. and abroad - is overwhelming.

The glow of the first week of an unrestricted generosity is wearing off, ... Now we're on to the stories of crime and cost and what are these guys going to do to the partisan balance.

All existing LIFT productions have been salvaged through the tireless work of homeless LIFT employees, generosity of our California partners and cooperation from countless entities across north Louisiana,

The event is awesome. It is the culmination of a year's worth of very hard work. It brings together the Peninsula's best volunteers, restaurants and wineries. Their generosity is greatly appreciated.

Every great leader has a generosity gene.

Good leaders have a generosity gene.

I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity . It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.

Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another's life if you cannot be a gift. (You can always be a gift, because you always are the gift - yet sometimes you don't let yourself know that.)

Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.

Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament.

I attribute that to the generosity of people that are in the entertainment business because they are all struggling. All roads seem to come to acting, for certain kinds of people that have a reason for being there. They want to be seen and heard, but there's more to it than that. There's a kindred spirit of struggling to find out, "What is this thing? What are we?" It's those eternal questions. But, in the meanwhile, I've met some wonderful people doing this.

Initiate giving. Don't wait for someone to ask. See what happens - especially to you. You may find that you gain a greater clarity about yourself and about your relationships, as well as more energy rather than less. You may find that, rather than exhausting yourself or your resources, you will replenish them. Such is the power of mindful, selfless generosity. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient . . . only the universe rearranging itself.

The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims.

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

Andrew Armstrong is guilty of a lot of things. There is a history with this man. . . . But the thing he's guilty of more than anything else is generosity to his employees.

Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.

Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.

It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.

Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.

Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.

The upper echelon of the movie industry is easier to deal with and the work is much easier to accomplish because of this generosity of spirit and confidence that they instill in the group around them.

It's been quite hectic. Through the generosity of local businesses, namely Wal-Mart, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Plum Creek Cleaners, as well as school children from District 22, and a host of Dawson County residents and others in surrounding counties, we were able to help the families furnish their living quarters and obtain food and clothing.

It's the greatest place in the world I know to work, because of the atmosphere of kindness and generosity of the town residents and the quality of the employees.

It is through their generosity that we will be able to create these seven civic and public initiatives that will help us truly live up to the 'National' in our name.

It's the time once again when we're being called upon to express our generosity to our brothers and sisters who have been affected by Katrina.

It's this generosity that makes Red Cross disaster response possible.

This money and the generosity of these folks are going to be a real blessing to us.

There's been an outpouring of generosity and support.

It was the generosity of this woman that was the source of the gifting. It was her free choice.

It was an amazing event. An unbelievable outpouring of generosity from throughout the country enabled us to provide some relief for the people who are suffering. We as an organization will do just about anything to supply comfort, compassion, money and anything else we can to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

This was another great year for Food for Friends. People from all across the American northeast will benefit from the generosity of our customers and the hard work of our associates.

Through the generosity of the public we have raised a little over $85,000 and have kept administrative costs in 2004 to less than 9 percent, ... All proceeds go directly to qualified families.

It may take a little longer, it may, ... But again, I think knowing the generosity of Americans ... there will be enough people that want to memorialize that sacrifice and their courage.

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

I don't think the kids know how loved they are. It's just overwhelming the generosity people have.