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• I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wise

  Andrew Carnegie (2014). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay: The Gospel of Wealth”, p.186, Courier Corporation

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• Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Revenge, Compassion, Thinking

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• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

  Emma Lazarus

  Tired, Civilization, Urbanization

  "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

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• By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

  Homer

  Giving, Charity, Stranger

  Homer (2015). “The Odyssey”, p.249, Homer

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  Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspiration, People, Giving

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• I'm not doing my philanthropic work out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

  George Soros

  Work, Believe, Guilt

  "Now" with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. September 12, 2003.

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• The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

  Walter Scott

  Life, Power, Men

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• Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

  Bill Gates

  Life, Business Success, Self Improvement

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• To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

  Horace Mann

  Inspiring, Forgiveness, Compassion

  Horace Mann (1845). “Lectures on Education”, p.297

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• Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

  Michael Porter

  Thinking, Use, Billions

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• It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.

  Bill Cosby

  Bible, Jesus, Blessed

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• Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

  James Russell Lowell

  Giving, Three, Charity

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations”, p.46, tredition

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• Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

  Charles Lamb

  Charity, Purses, Strings

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life”, p.138

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• Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Integrity, Selfish, Creativity

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

  Thomas Fuller

  Kindness, Home, Fundraising

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• It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

  Homer

  Charity, Poor, Despise

  Homer (1811). “The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope”, p.274

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• Being innovative in your philantropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Heart, Journey, Impact

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• He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Wise, Time, Vote

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.14

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• Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Air, Charity, Certain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.203, Library of America

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• In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.

  Homer

  Sight, Soul, Delight

  Homer (1854). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.282

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• When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Hands, Left Hand, Alms

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• There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.

  Conrad Hilton

  Inspiring, Law, Suffering

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• We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Powerful, Justice, Elements

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.288, Library of America

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• Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Heaven, Charity

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• Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts.

  Conrad Hilton

  Inspirational, Greatness, Men

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