"Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world."

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Source : "Why Twitter, Why Now?" by Melinda Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2011.

Melinda Gates

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“Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.”
“Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers,' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!”
“Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.”
“Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of societyâ€™s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.”
“My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.”
“Here the system is creating an industry around the drug issue when it does nothing to stop the corrupt military that moves the drugs, and the big banks that are all in cahoots with the President and the big shots in the Congress.”
“Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?”

Source : Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.421, Ballantine Books
“The only parental authority I had was the studio. When I was a star, there was always somebody with me, to guard me. I was not allowed to be photographed with a cigarette, a drink, a cup of coffee or even a glass of water because someone might think it was liquor. When I left the studio I was already married and had two children, but I felt as sad as a child leaving home for the first time.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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