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“You can't know if your values are being violated if you're ambiguous about what they are”

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The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead; ask about the scale of their dreams -…

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We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a…

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We tell the for-profit sector, 'Spend, spend, spend on advertising until the last dollar no longer produces a penny of value,' but we don't…

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While business advertises, charity is taught to beg. While business motivates with a dollar, charity is told to motivate with guilt. While business takes chances, charity is expected to be cautious. We measure the success of businesses over the long term, but we want our gratification in charity immediately. We are taught that a return on investment should be offered…

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Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.

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When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue,…

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If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call…

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Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

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When we show people that something is possible that they didn't think was possible it does more than just change things. It changes the way people think about the possibility of things changing. It helps them see that life is not the same day-after day, unsurprising, unending drudgery that so much of life teaches them that it is. And that…

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Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire has been ethically ambiguous. If you want to reason about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief worthy of special consideration, I'm eager to play. I…

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Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.

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Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and ambiguous medium.…

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Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .

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“In general we are reminded that the word heimlich is not unambiguous, but belongs to two sets of ideas, which, without being contradictory, are yet very different: on the one hand it means what is familiar and agreeable, and on the other, what is concealed and kept out of sight. Unheimlich is customarily used, we are told, as the contrary…

Sigmund Freud

I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and depending on…

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Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its…

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My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

Odilon Redon

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Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

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Wave particle duality is a core feature of our world. Or rather, we should say, it is a core feature of our mathematical descriptions of our world. But what is critical to note here is that, however ambiguous our images, the universe itself remains whole and is manifestly not fracturing into schizophrenic shards. It is this tantalizing wholeness and the…

Margaret Wertheim