"The word ‘philanthropy’ brings up an image of somebody who’s had an illustrious career, has retired and is giving to highly established institutions that may or may not have ivy growing up their walls. I personally have felt the need to give philanthropy a reboot."

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Source : "Rebooting Philanthropy in Silicon Valley". Interview with Claire Cain Miller, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2011.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

#Wall Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Ivy Quotes

“This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.”
“You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.”
“God didn't create you to be average. You were created to excel You have everything”
“To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.”
“Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at least partly on the basis of qualities we find attractive. But we do not choose our children. Their qualities are unpredictable, and even the most conscientious parents cannot be held wholly responsible for the kind of child they have. That is why parenthood, more than other human relationships, teaches what the theologian William F. May calls an â€œopenness to the unbidden.”
“When perfect frankness comes in at the door love flies out of the window.”
“I'm not driven by being understood.”
“A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbor with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.”

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