"All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less than 1% of rich world income. The effort required of the rich is indeed so slight that to do less is to announce brazenly to a large part of the world: 'You count for nothing.' We should not be surprised, then, if in later years the rich reap the whirlwind of that heartless response."

-- Jeffrey Sachs

#Years Quotes #Effort Quotes #Heartless Quotes

“I hope that there is a very confused 14 year old girl out there who hears me speak or hears me sing and derives some sort of strength from that I heard that when I was 14 that's exactly what happened.”
“I think that is a very important component, to have passion, to have a dream, to have a purpose in life.”
“Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.”
“[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.”
“While catastrophes do enter the lives of godly people, they attach themselves far more to people who reject Him.”
“We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.”
“Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it seemed to them ridiculous. Many persons have regarded it with indifference, because they have never felt its true disadvantages. But it is as a citizen that I attack it, because it seems to me harmful to the happiness of the state, hostile to the march of the mind of man, and contrary to sound morality, from which the interests of state policy can never be separated.”
“And for just a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.”

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