Donors Quotes - Page 6

• It's not an accident that the U.S. ranks lowest of all major donor countries in the world - that is the share of our income that goes to development aid. Americans will ask whether, because were so generous privately, that makes up the difference. But it doesn't. We still rank far below other countries.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Differences, Income

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• So much goes into doing a transplant operation. All the way from preparing the patient, to procuring the donor. It's like being an astronaut. The astronaut gets all the credit, he gets the trip to the moon, but he had nothing to do with the creation of the rocket, or navigating the ship. He's the privileged one who gets to drive to the moon. I feel that way in some of these more difficult operations, like the heart transplant.

  Denton Cooley

  Heart, Moon, Rockets

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• Charity with a smile shows the donor's character.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Character, Charity, Shows

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• The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics.

  Arthur Caplan

  Fetus, Use, Bombs

  "Help From The Unborn Fetal-cell" by Joe Levine, content.time.com. June 24, 2001.

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• One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the chance to declare victory and move on to new frontiers.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Moving, Missing, Victory

  "Let’s Shake Up the Social Sciences". www.nytimes.com. July 19, 2013.

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• When we think about living donor transplant, what we're banking on is the ability of the liver to regenerate itself. Now, it's not the same sort of regeneration we think about with the starfish where we cut off the arm and it grows a new arm. With the liver, what happens is the remaining liver gets bigger, and your body knows the size of the liver that it needs, and when it recognizes that there is not enough liver, it sends nutrients and signals to the liver and says "get bigger."

  John Roberts

  Cutting, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org

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• If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it suggests that there's a deep and profound hunger for a new politics to come forth. And a guy like him has been able to mobilize that and to reach certain parts of the hip-hop generation.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Profound, Hip Hop, Guy

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• I think it's great that they can come in and suck us dry. Remind me to leave my window unlatched tonight. Day. Night. Whatever. Cone steal my soul, you worthless bastards. I'm open like a twenty-four-hour blood diner donor." (Dev)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Night, Thinking, Blood

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• We are always in awe of what the donors have done in terms of providing of themselves to the recipients. It really is a heroic act because people take on themselves not only a risk of death but also pain-and-suffering in order for their loved one to get the benefit of the liver transplant.

  John Roberts

  Pain, Order, People

  Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org

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• I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.

  Lady Gaga

  Baby, Italian, Want

  "Lady GaGa: 'I want Italian sperm donor'" by Leah Simpson, www.digitalspy.com. February 1, 2012.

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• A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname for bikers: Donors. Rather chilling.

  Stephen Fry

  Cousin, Funny Life, Humorous

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• My administration will not answer to donors or lobbyists or special interests, but we will serve the citizens of the United States of America, believe me.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, America, Special

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Write a living will. And become an organ donor!

  Jodi Picoult

  Writing, Organ Donor, Organs

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Wine, Space

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• In the party of Lincoln and Reagan and much of the donor class, the defense of human life is what they think loses elections. They think we need to spend time on really popular ideas, like cutting your mom's Social Security check.

  Gary Bauer

  Mom, Party, Cutting

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• I understand that the legal position is under review in South Africa and that there will soon be a broader set of organizations to which donors can give and claim tax deductions.

  Nelson Mandela

  Organization, Giving, Claims

  Source: www.mott.org

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• Too many voters are already bought -- not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Campaigns, Voters

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• The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great national parties, an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery, which requires a large expenditure of money. Then the stipulation should be made that no party receiving campaign funds from the Treasury should accept more than a fixed amount from any individual subscriber or donor; and the necessary publicity for receipts and expenditures could without difficulty be provided.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Party, Organization, Receiving

  Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge (2017). “THEODORE ROOSEVELT - Ultimate Collection: Memoirs, History Books, Biographies, Essays, Speeches &Executive Orders: America and the World War, The Ancient Irish Sagas, The Naval War of 1812, Hero Tales From American History, Winning of the West, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, History as Literature...”, p.3451, Madison & Adams Press

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• What a tremendous act of generosity on the part of the donors who made this possible and what a tremendous opportunity for all these children in Kalamazoo public schools who can now go to college and chase their dreams.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Dream, Children, School

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• It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

  Adam Braun

  Office Space, Mean, School

  "Three Months Later - Learnings from the Greg Mortensen Controversy" by Adam Braun, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2011.

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• Presumed consent preserves freedom of choice, but it is different from explicit consent because it shifts the default rule. Under this policy, all citizens would be presumed to be consenting donors, but they would have the opportunity to register their unwillingness to donate.

  Cass Sunstein

  Opportunity, Choices, Different

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• 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.

  Irving Kristol

  Levels, Awful, Damage

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• The man who receives gifts from God, receives an appointment from God; namely, that of donor; and the wisdom to discharge the functions connected with this appointment will surely not be withheld, if it be ingenuously asked.

  George Bowen

  Men, He Man, Function

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• Public financing would fix campaign donor problems.

  Hillary Clinton

  Campaigns, Problem, Financing

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• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Organization, Priorities, Foundation

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