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Category Archives: Philanthropists

“Many people flounder about in life because they have no purpose. Before it is possible to achieve anything, an objective must be set”. –George Halas

“I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds”. –Louis Nizer

“The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world”. –Louis Agassiz

“Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools”. –Douglas Bader

“The law is an ass”. –Charles Dickens

“My child arrived just the other day, He came to the world in the usual way. But there were planes to catch, and bills to pay. He learned to walk while I was away”. –Harry Chapin

“Fashions fade, style is eternal”. –Yves Saint Laurent

“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work”. –Michael Jackson

“I never met a man I didn’t want to fight”. –Lyle Alzado

“There is no freedom without justice”. –Simon Wiesenthal

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable”. –Christopher Reeve

“You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue you, for law is too slow. I’ll ruin you”. –Cornelius Vanderbilt

“In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy”. –J. Paul Getty

“I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion, and one who is not is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people”. –Morarji Desai

“The African is my brother — but he is my younger brother by several centuries”. –Albert Schweitzer

“People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness”. –John Wanamaker

“Oh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don’t need them and the bad people don’t follow them, so what good are they?” –Ammon Hennacy

“The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it”. –James E. Casey

“If you’re playing a poker game, and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you”. –Paul Newman

“Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place, but I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s Will, and He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain, and I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land”. –Martin Luther King

“Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die”. –Herbert Hoover

“A democracy is nothing more than mob-rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine”. –Thomas Jefferson

“Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master”. –PT Barnum

“I’m not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddammit, I’m a billionaire”. –Howard Hughes

“Charity is injurious, unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it”. –John D. Rockefeller

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