"Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before."

-- Eli Broad

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“While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do. Too often, the issue of LGBT rights is exploited by those seeking to divide us. But at its core, this issue is about who we are as Americans. It's about whether this nation is going to live up to its founding promise of equality by treating all its citizens with dignity and respect.”
“Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.”
“Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.”
“Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the act of thinking and the act of articulating those thoughts were not synchronous to me, or even necessarily consecutive. I knew that I thought and spoke in the same language and that theoretically there should be no reason why I could not express my thoughts as they occurred or soon thereafter, but the language in which I thought and the language in which I spoke, though both English, often seemed divided by a gap that could not be simultaneously, or even retrospectively, bridged.”

Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.64, Macmillan
“The thought of judgment, criticism and condemnation must, in time, operate against the one who sets it into motion.”
“Algorithms dont do a good job of detecting their own flaws.”
“I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner.”
“This Ayah indicates that the pious person should express his love to Allah by believing in His Prophet and following the Message, and through obeying the Prophet, abiding by his orders, leaving what he prohibits and obeying all what Allah has revealed to him, because that is the vivid expression of the practical love that fills his whole entity.”

Source : "The mutual love between Allah and His servants". english.bayynat.org.lb.

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