"I give away about 50 percent of my income, so my, you know, desire to give back to the country is pretty strong and I intend to give away a lot more. I've signed the giving pledge with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, and I intend to give away the bulk of my money."

-- David Rubenstein

#Country Quotes #Strong Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.”
“We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.”
“Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions.”
“In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.”
“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”

Source : Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
“Wouldn't we all rather have the possibility of finding pleasure and delight in literally anything we might encounter? Instead of assuming that actually there are only these three things where pleasure and delight are possible. Like oh, it's television and socialization and work, and then everything else is the smoke I have to somehow choke my way through in order to get to the good parts.”

Source : Source: app.longform.org
“I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.”
“Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.”

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