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“There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.”

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Maimonides

Maimonides, born on March 30, 1135 and died on December 12, 1204, was a Jewish philosopher, physician, and legal scholar. He is renowned for his contributions to philosophy, medicine, and Jewish law. more

“When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on, how I would long for the lunch hour, when I would be able to escape the torture of the office and stroll over to the churchyard and into the comforting wooden embrace of one of its benches.”

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Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“If your aims as a donor are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, but you can cause a great deal of damage.”

Ifs Causes Levels Deals Aim Accomplish Awful Damage Reasonable Modest Donors

Author:Irving Kristol

“A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.”

Ifs Giving Hands Bits Gains Rose Generous Fragrance

Author:Confucius

“I feel called to help individuals, to love each human being. I never think in terms of crowds in general but in terms of persons. Were I to think about crowds, I would never begin anything.”

Thinking Feels Humans Persons Helping Individual Term Human Beings Crowds

Book:No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition

Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition

“If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.”

Ifs Men Helping Minutes Another Man

Author:William Blake

“The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.”

Machines Payoff Slot Machines Showbiz

Book:I Can't Believe I Said That!

Source: I Can't Believe I Said That!

“Money won is always better than money earned.”

Author:Paul Hornung

“Maxwell is the physicist's physicist.”

Physicist Maxwell

Author:Stephen Hawking

“The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.”

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Book:A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

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