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Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick.

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  Carl Hagelin
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• What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually – to look in the mirror and not be ashamed – has been very important in not relapsing.

  

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• Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.

  

  Jack Ramsay
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• I came from a crew, and to me, all the guys I rapped with were better than me, so I was surprised when I was the breakout one. It was definitely a cool thing.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Cool
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• My dad wouldn't buy me tight pants. I had to get my own money to buy them.

  

  Young Thug
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Buy

• Yet now, as he roared across the night sky toward an unknown destiny, he found himself facing that bleak and ultimate question which so few men can answer to their satisfaction. What have I done with my life, he asked himself, that the world will be poorer if I leave it.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Life
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• I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt.

  

  Andre Derain
  • Kids
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  • Study

• Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world.

  

  R. Murray Schafer
  • World
  • Modern
  • Dawn

• Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Success
  • Marriage
  • Poverty

• In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily items equally in the exclusive representation of a normal item taken out of their usual context , is by far the most radical - in its effect comparable to a Japanese Zen koan - paradox to be witnessed, which modern art has produced, one of the most forceful impulses that generated from it.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Different
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• Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
  • Success
  • Failure

• The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Body
  • Numbers
  • Infinite

• Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Education
  • Place
  • Teachers

• Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Poverty
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• At this moment, everyone is in crisis, not only in Italy but all over Europe. Only in America do they make films that are successful all over the world. In Europe, production is quite poor. We have three or four or five films, which is not enough.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • World
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• Hard work, not workplace romance, should be the primary tool to get ahead in your career. Sleeping your way to the top is a Hollywood clichŽ, not a viable option for advancing your job prospects.

  

  Jeff Cohen
  • Work
  • Career
  • Romance

• Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick.

  

  Noreena Hertz
  • Poor
  • Schools
  • Philanthropists