"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it."

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

John D. Rockefeller

#Motivational Quotes #Independent Quotes #Charity Quotes

“I wish Kurt Cobain didn't die. I really don't know where he'd be right now, I don't know what he'd be like. I just like to fantasize that he would like our band and he would know what we were up to.”
“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.”

Source : Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.
“We have seen a growing mismatch between the command of media communication shown by the most talented politicians, and the halting, uneven progress which they can deliver through the machinery of government.”

Source : Tom Bentley (2001). “It's Democracy, Stupid: An Agenda for Self-government”, p.6, Demos
“If you have paparazzi, you know you've gotten somewhere.”
“I don't feel opportunistic ever, in anything.”
“Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything.”

Source : "Twitter Founders Thrive on Micro-Blogging Constraints". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. May 17, 2007.
“I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.”
“I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames.”

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