“We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return. Clearly, there's some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What's missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area. Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it's quite astonishing.” ThinkingWorldNeedsLooksThreeOpportunitySocialCenturyMissingIndustryReturnDiversityAreasFinancialProfitExtremesEnormousFinanceZeroEntityReverseSpectrumAstonishingNon ProfitSocial Entrepreneurship Author:Bill Drayton
“Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.” LongAsksFunTermLong TermSymbiosisMitochondria Author:Larry Wall
“A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.” ChristianChristianityGentlemanAlmighty Author:Augustus Hare
“Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant” SeriousDiseaseDoctorsCuresLatinRemedyHarsh Author:Quintus Curtius Rufus
“The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We have paid a high enough price for the nostalgia of the whole and the one, for the reconciliation of the concept and the sensible, of the transparent and the communicable experience. Under the general demand for slackening and for appeasement, we can hear the mutterings of the desire for a return of terror, for the realization of the fantasy to seize reality. The answer is: Let us wage a war on totality; let us be witnesses to the unpresentable; let us activate the differences.” WarEnoughWholeRealityDesireGivenDifferencesAnswersFantasyCenturyReturnDemandConceptsPaidTerrorNostalgiaRealizationWitnessSensibleReconciliationTransparentTwentieth CenturyTotalityActivateAppeasementMuttering Author:Jean-Francois Lyotard
“A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.” HelpingLaughingTruth IsSense Of HumorGood SenseUps & DownsLaugh At YourselfGood Sense Of Humor Author:Jill Abramson
“Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.” PeopleIfsGivingFirstsLightAgeAsksGiving UpPassingPassingsAsk MeNot Giving UpTorchesListen To MeListen To Yourself Author:Gloria Steinem
“We have a commitment to serve our Lord. We have an assurance that the cause is just and worthy. But, above all, we have a knowledge that God lives and is in His Heavens and that His Son Jesus Christ has laid out a plan for us which will bring us and our loved ones eternal life if we are faithful. That life will be a busy, purposeful life with accomplishments and joys and development.” IfsJoyJesusHeavenCausesChristLordPlansSonDevelopmentEternalCommitmentJesus ChristBusyWorthyFaithfulAccomplishmentLoved OnesAssuranceOur LordEternal LifeGod LifePurposeful Life Author:Spencer W. Kimball