Elsa Morante Quotes
In the end, of the one thousand fifty-six who had left, in a body, from the Tiburtina station, a total of fifteen came back alive. And of those dead, the luckiest were surely the first eight hundred and fifty. The gas chamber is the only seat of charity, in a concentration camp.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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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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I think charity begins with your family and you take it from there.
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I'm always keen to have more training as a charity patron.
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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
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People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
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As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn't be admissible.
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If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.
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The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men and to relieve their distresses. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public.
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My charity is called 'Grand Kids.' People keep thinking it's 'Grandkids.'
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I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.
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I've long wanted to find a charitable cause to really get involved with and be passionate about. I get invited to a lot of charity events to sing, and I am happy to help and bring a source of entertainment, but I'm sort of disconnected from them.
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I'm very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.
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We make friends with people we admire, including those you might consider competitors, like charity: water, Kiva, and Global Giving. We get on a call with them and exchange ideas.
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Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.
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IRS rules generally prohibit acts of 'self-dealing,' in which a charity's leaders use the nonprofit group's money to buy things for themselves.
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A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.
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So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It is our duty to inject that into our day-to-day business, into the work that we do, to improve corporations, to improve civil society, and to improve government.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.
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Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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In the end, of the one thousand fifty-six who had left, in a body, from the Tiburtina station, a total of fifteen came back alive. And of those dead, the luckiest were surely the first eight hundred and fifty. The gas chamber is the only seat of charity, in a concentration camp.
