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“Philanthropy is all about making a positive difference in the world by devoting your resources and your time to causes you believe in. In my case, I like to support causes where "a lot of good comes from a little bit of good," or, in other words, where the positive social returns vastly exceed the amount of time and money invested.”
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“The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.”
Source : Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.8, Random House
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“I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.”
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“it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.”
Source : Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lyn Pykett (2012). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.157, Oxford University Press
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“Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.”
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“The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.”
Source : Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.8
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“Here's an example of how it wastes some time. To be judged on or to be talked about on appearance—say chest size—it makes me wear layers, it makes me have to waste time figuring out what am I going to wear so that nobody will look in an area that I don't need them to look at.”
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“The lobbyists, the special interests, the special pleaders, if you will, the super PACs the billionaires, these people are apoplectic about the rise of Trump. He can't be bought. He can bring sweeping conservative reform.”
Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
