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Jai Ganesh

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Charities and Charity Quotes - I

Charities and Charity Quotes - I

1. I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years. - Martina Navratilova

2. The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

3. My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go. - Bill Gates

4. If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government. - John Major

5. The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work. - Bill Gates

6. We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. - Barack Obama

7. A man who always speaks the truth wholeheartedly is greater than those who do penance and deeds of charity. - Thiruvalluvar

8. Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. - John D. Rockefeller.

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