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Chanel Miller | Zhang Xiao Xia

#know my name #chanelmiller

sandandglass

Total respect.

vulgarweed

Not only was she the first female writer to make the Forbes billionaires list, she then became one of the very few people to take herself off that list by giving so much to charity that it actually made a dent in her fortune.

And she gets it. There aren’t enough generous billionaires in the world who remember where they came from, therefore private charity isn’t the ultimate (only) answer to poverty like some politicians would have us believe. We are all interconnected, we all need each other, in democratic countries we are part of the government, and so keeping needy people from falling into complete destitution and despair is an important and worthy role for government to take. It benefits all of us in the long run. And nobody who feels comfortable and secure now (fewer and fewer of those people around these days) has any guarantee they won’t need help themselves someday.

elegantpaws

JK Rowling…reason numbers 2.7 billion why I adore this woman.

thelocalwanderer

made it.

#books #book #academic #strange #academia

The Meeting- Gerald Costanzo

Somewhere along the road you meet up with yourself. Recognition is immediate. If it happens at the proper time and place, you propose a toast: May you remain as my shadow when I lie down. May I live on as your ghost. Then you pass, knowing you'll never see yourself that way again: the fires which burn before you are your penance, the ashes you leave behind are your name.

Beauty without intelligence is like a masterpiece painted on a piece of toilet paper