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...Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various social activities — politics, publishing, theatre, philanthropy, and business — he finds more hypocrisy and corruption than he thought possible. He takes refuge with a group of bohemians, who meet in a red dining room in Berns Salonger to discuss these matters. (Introduction ...
... it is growing stronger. Most of the excuses which serve the capitalists as masks are, of course, the excuses of hypocrites. They lie when they claim philanthropy; they no more feel any particular love of men than Albu felt an affection for Chinamen. They lie when they say they have reached their position through their own organising ability. They generally have to pay men...
...invested. If it were invested it would be used to make more wealth or for philanthropy that ameliorated thievery. He agreed in a vague way with Kump...
.......... 184 1—Follow a non-didactic path to teaching important life skills ...................... 184 2—Instill a sense of the need for substantive philanthropy—helping others .. 186 3—Working for yourself is more rewarding than brokering for others ........... 187 4—Shun prominence as a means of survival ................................................... 188 5—When ...
...landing.” Far from abandoning the epigram in favour of the slogan, Wilde wittily assails several of his favourite targets: the misguided purveyors of philanthropy; life-denying ascetics of various kinds; the army of the half-educated who constitute themselves the enemies of Art - and those venal popular journalists who cater to them... “Behind the barricade there may be mu...
... spend money on making the arid lands arable. People applaud this type of philanthropy. She decided to try to attack the cause. And the obvious cause... ...lage. Computer time is divided among families. ―In addition to the philanthropy of Mrs. Doors and her friends, we get some foreign aid. It al... ... businesses outsourcing to our eager but low skilled workers. Mrs. Doors‘ philanthropy and her ‗hands on‘ help was the most important. Then the volu...
...l Dewey‘s dedication to library science (1875–1925). Andrew Carnegie‘s philanthropy (1901–19). At home Mergenthaler‘s family had no money for s... ...of all American libraries still used the DDC system. Andrew Carnegie‘s philanthropy set in motion the building of thousands of modern libraries—s...
...o social pressure as the principal force motivating consumers to adopt the idea of philanthropy. In a strong statement to that effect, Bolnick main... ... shame or degradation and to symbolize many other human sentiments (1967, p. 45). Philanthropy has undergone changes parallel to those of other merc... ...ption process typically involves more than just one decision factor. For example, philanthropy, a social product (idea), is affected by group influ...
...cian. Bill and Melinda Gates had notoriety because of their vast wealth and philanthropy, and the way Microsoft had changed the world. Mother Theres...
...selves. The programs have been so successful that we have a long waiting list of villages that wish to participate. We are now seeking private philan...
...L. R. 871, 929–34 (1995); Alice Gresham Bullock, T axes, Social Policy and Philanthropy: The Untapped Potential of Middle- and Low-Income Generosity...
...th both wealthy intellectuals and idiots alike. Such a trivial dabbling of philanthropy, he further argued, would more likely than not be money thrown...
...uent family; his father was a popular, rich merchant known for his religious philanthropy. Leaders like Motilal Nehru (father of Jawaharlal Nehru, ...
... the sources and the limits of any paths to happiness. Was it money, God, philanthropy, fame, family, self realization or any of the other human goa...
...is: that in spite of Gates still being the richest man in the world: his token philanthropy proves by his living example: that he is corrupt. That b... ...eedy rich people. And they are not listening to him at all: because his token philanthropy is not genuine and is not actually true. It is a cold me...
...eedom to be men, that their very spirits are in bondage. It is part of our philanthropy—it should be part of our statesmanship—to ease the burden as w... ...me single vice or blemish? I would not for the world discredit any sort of philanthropy except the small and churlish sort which seeks to reform by na...
..., hushing his footsteps, he passes to his own room, lights his pipe, and delivers himself to the Spectres it invokes at midnight. 50 The Mystery of E... ...lf to the Spectres it invokes at midnight. 50 The Mystery of Edwin Drood CHAPTER VI – PHILANTHROPY IN CHAPTER VI – PHILANTHROPY IN CHAPTER VI – PHILA... ...d, when they were unassisted. ‘It’s from Mr. Honeythunder, of course,’ said the old lady, folding her arms. ‘Of course,’ assented her son. He then lam... ..., after the honour of being introduced to you at your sister’s house in town here. With compliments to the Rev. Mr. Septimus, I am, Dear Madam, Your a... ...uld never have been seen apart, was the childless wife of a clergyman holding Corporation preferment in London City. Mr. Honeythunder in his public ch... ...ngdom, laying them every one by the heels in jail, and forcing them, on pain of prompt extermination, to become philanthropists. Mrs. Crisparkle had n... ...s was facetiously charged against him by public unbelievers, that he called aloud to his fellow-creatures: ‘Curse your souls and bodies, come here and... ...u hated him), and calling him all manner of names. Above all things, you were to do nothing in private, or on your own account. You were to go to the ... ...rs in her eyes, and the remainder of the party lapsed into a sort of gelatinous state, in which there was no flavour or solidity, and very little resi...
...ca proprietor of those days should not have done so. Men will do much for philanthropy, they will work hard, they will give the coat from their back;...
...inued Zenobia. “I should like Mr. Hollingsworth a great deal better if the philanthropy had been left out. At all events, as a mere matter of taste, I... ...it had been mainly brought about by the very ar dor and exuberance of his philanthropy. Sad, indeed, but by no means unusual: he had taught his benev... ... a mystery to me how I withstood it. But, in truth, I saw in his scheme of philanthropy nothing but what was odious. A loathsomeness that was to be fo... ...” said she. “But I am weary of this place, and sick to death of playing at philanthropy and progress. Of all varieties of mock life, we have surely bl... ...rth’s character and errors, is simply this, that, admitting what is called philanthropy, when adopted as a profession, to be often useful by its energ...