"If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it."

-- Dan Pallotta

#Sweet Quotes #Long Quotes #Risk Quotes

“Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.”

Source : Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “PENELOPE’S PROGRESS – The Complete Series: Penelope's English Experiences, Penelope's Experiences in Scotland, Penelope's Irish Experiences & Penelope's Postscripts: Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton”, p.185, e-artnow
“God's big plan: go love everybody, always!”
“Some might say they don't believe in heaven Go and tell it to the man who lives in hell.”

Source : 1995 'Some Might Say'.
“I feel like the songs that I write are best when they are performed by an ensemble, rather than by one solo instrument.”
“It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.”
“I'm very attracted to a girl's eyes. I think you can tell a lot by a girl's eyes”
“At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.”

Source : William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.71, London : R. Bentley
“When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day. I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.”

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