Quote by David Rockefeller
Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform soc

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. – David Rockefeller

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I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making ones life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important. – David Rockefeller

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good
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I owe much to mother. She had an experts understanding, but also approached art emotionally. – David Rockefeller

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Art
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I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam – I break in order to reveal. – Stephen Jay Gould

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Society

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. – Don DeLillo

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Society

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society – as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times. – David Bohm

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Society

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism. – King Abdullah II

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It is easier for me to see everything as one thing than to see one thing as one thing. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life. – Robert James Waller

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Haste

Begin each day as if it were on purpose. – Author Unknown

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Purpose

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me. – Mitch Hedberg

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funny