William Cowper Quotes
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Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
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I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in Britain. I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause.
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To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.
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Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.
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In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.
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Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
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My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.
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I think charity begins with your family and you take it from there.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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Nature doesn't make long speeches.
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Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H." It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.
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Tough Olympic news for the Romneys. Ann Romney's horse Rafalka did not advance to the Olympic finals. Apparently it was beat by a smooth-talking socialist horse from Kenya.
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.
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Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.
