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There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee... This was all stuff that was previously known.

— Robert Torricelli

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

This is not an election where we hand out gifts. It is an election where we ask everyone to contribute more.

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

— Edward Sapir

Presents are symbolic. When you give them in your personal life, they should show that you are paying attention to the person to whom you're giving them.

— Judith Martin

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

— Walter Benjamin

So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me.

— Terrence Howard

I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it.

— Hazel Scott

Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.

— Andrew Weil

I allowed life to give me presents. And everything just sort of happened the way it was supposed to happen. I did not pursue anything. It more or less pursued me.

— Ruth Bernhard

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

✗Opposing Perspectives

I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

— Jacki Weaver