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The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They…
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a…
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare…
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of…
If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great…
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of…
Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey…
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality,…
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically,…
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us…
If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering…

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More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history. — Robert Breault
The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice. — Bill Gates
There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings… — Nicholas D. Kristof
If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great… — John Glenn
Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who… — Marvin Olasky
My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is… — Jon Huntsman, Jr.
To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry… — Virginia Woolf
The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. — Barbara Ehrenreich
As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a… — Steven Levitt
I would like philanthropists to take more risks and invest more in risk capital. — Jacqueline Novogratz

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