"We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people."

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Source : "The way we think about charity is dead wrong". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2013.

Dan Pallotta

#Motivation Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Helping Others Quotes

“What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling”
“I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys”
“All life pulsates in time to the Earth and our artificial fields cause abnormal reactions in all organisms... Increasing electropollution could set in motion irreversible changes leading to our extinction.”
“People need their history like they need air and food.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.
“The world should have stopped, but it didn't. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An earthquake in India kills a thousand people, and the world keeps on going. A famine in China kills a million people, and the world keeps on going. The twin towers of the World Trade Center buckle and fall, and the world, the world keeps on going.”

Source : Alison McGhee (2013). “All Rivers Flow to the Sea”, p.2, Candlewick Press
“For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.”
“When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.”
“Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything.”

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