"Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders."

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Source : "Can this 'venture philanthropist' save our schools?". www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2005.

Arpad Busson

#Charity Quotes #Treats Quotes #Donors Quotes

“Learn to look after your staff first and the rest will follow”
“In America everyone plays bang ball, eight ball, nine ball, that kind of stupid crap, but in Canada and Europe they play snooker which is a much more skillful game and I enjoy that. I play pool now with friends, if we go to a bar we will play, but I am nowhere near as good as I once was.”

Source : Source: pokerworks.com
“Iâ€™d give him a cup of coffee and a big helping of a knuckle sandwich. Generosity was a virtue and I was in the mood to be extremely virtuous.”
“The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who injured us; and it is hardly possible for one man to be more unlike another than he that forbears to avenge himself of wrong is to him who did the wrong.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.33
“He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the birches, with the oaks. A cool green fire kept breaking in the woods and he could hear the footsteps of the dead. Everything had fallen from him. He scarce could tell where his being ended or the world began nor did he care. He lay on his back in the gravel, the earth's core sucking his bones, a moment's giddy vertigo with this illusion of falling outward through blue and windy space, over the offside of the planet, hurtling through the high thin cirrus.”
“The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.”
“You have the Super Soaker filled with holy water?â€ â€œYeah. I sucked it out of the church. You know that bird-bath thing they got right up front?â€ â€œThe baptismal font?â€ â€œThatâ€™s it. They got it filled with holy water, free for the taking.â€ â€œBrilliant,â€ I said to Lula. She tapped her head with her finger. â€œNo grass growinâ€™ here.”
“He (Buck Showaleter) never even smelled a jock in the big leagues. Mr. Baseball never even got a hit in Triple-A. I was a better player than him, I have more money than him and I'm better looking than him.”

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