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.Elsa Morante
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings -
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.
Majora Carter -
I think charity begins with your family and you take it from there.
Caprice Bourret -
People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
Calvin Klein -
As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn't be admissible.
Fidel Castro -
If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.
Natalie Cole
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My charity is called 'Grand Kids.' People keep thinking it's 'Grandkids.'
Curtis Granderson -
I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.
Arabella Weir -
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.
Katharine McPhee -
I'm very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.
Bernard Marcus -
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.
Charles Best -
Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
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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.
David Fahrenthold -
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.
Maria Monk -
I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.
Glenn Frey The Eagles -
The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government.
John L. Lewis -
Lena Dunham texts me every morning the minute she wakes up to make sure I'm alive.
Jennifer Konner -
We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.
Paul Bloom
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The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.
Gavin O'Connor -
Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.
Henry Norris Russell -
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.
Elsa Morante