"Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty."

-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Thought Provoking Quotes #Charity Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.”
“Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted.”
“Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?”
“If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become universal heretics, not believing anything that we do not know from direct experience, beyond stories, beyond hearsay, and even beyond the mind.”

Source : A. H. Almaas (2011). “Diamond Heart: Book Five: Inexhaustible Mystery”, p.63, Shambhala Publications
“I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.”
“I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. Its all about ideas.”
“The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture surveys the forms and uses of epigraphic writing from classical antiquity to the twentieth century.”

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