"Some charities treat donors like cash machines. Until now there hasn't been any effective way for them to provide a more personal or interactive giving experience."

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Source : "Q&A: Ben Rattray of Change.org". Interview with Dana Mattioli, www.wsj.com. August 21, 2007.

Ben Rattray

#Giving Quotes #Cash Quotes #Way Quotes

“People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.”

Source : C. S. Forester (1946). “Lord Hornblower”
“The problem is we donâ€™t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books â€“ mine included â€“ because it looked clear-cut, but it hasnâ€™t happened. The climate is doing its usual tricks. Thereâ€™s nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now. The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable timeâ€¦ it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.”
“Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.”
“I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself”
“Running hills breaks up your rhythm and forces your muscles to adapt to new stresses. The result? You become stronger.”
“Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors in the kitchen than we ever will from a book.”
“Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks, to draw [one] towards a total exaltation in which the individual mingles, losing his consciousness in a truth immediate, rare, enormous, and perfect. If a work of art succeeds in this undertaking even for a single moment, it attains its goal.”

Source : Iannis Xenakis (1992). “Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition”, p.1, Pendragon Press

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