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Quote by Marvin Olasky
Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists conce

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart. – Marvin Olasky

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On sensitive issues, talk isnt cheap – it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut. – Marvin Olasky

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Courage
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Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics. – Marvin Olasky

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Easter
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning. – Jean Baudrillard

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I have terrible handwriting. I now say its a learning disability… but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad. – Andrew Greeley

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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. – Michel de Montaigne

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I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didnt all start just a few years ago! – Paul Prudhomme

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Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself. – Marguerite Yourcenar

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