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"The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation."
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"Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires."

"I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference."

"My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it."

"For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace."

"I want to make a difference in the world. The only way to do that is to be different."

"Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it."

"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."

"Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way."

"The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice."

"The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation."
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"It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks."

"Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living."

"One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness."

"Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else."
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