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Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.

~Annie Lennox

Topics: Charity Fine Gap Helping Long Long Term Meeting Met Must Need Needs Other People Resources Support Term Themselves Thing Where

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Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing kindness. It is a matter of intense self-interest.

~Anthony Lewis

Topics: Attacking Charity Grace Hemisphere Intense Kindness Life Longer Matter Much Patronizing Self-Interest Southern

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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

~Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Topics: Bound Chains Charity Ever Gift God Gratitude Him Humiliated Made Never Nor Since Who

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I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.

~Arabella Weir

Topics: Businesses Charity Legal Like Linked Requirement Would

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I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions and enjoyed the laughter. It's very addictive. It's a lovely sensation to say something and hear a whole room laugh.

~Armando Iannucci

Topics: Addictive Charity Enjoyed Event Hear Home Impressions Laugh Laughter Lovely Old People Quite Room Say School Sensation Something Stand Stand Up Started Up Very Whole Would Young

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I work with a charity called Donate My Dress. It's got chapters all over the country where you can donate special-occasion dresses. Prom is a big deal when you're 15 years old, and it enables girls who don't have the money to come in and choose something special.

~Ashley Greene

Topics: Big Big Deal Chapters Charity Choose Come Country Deal Donate Dress Dresses Enables Girl Got Money Old Over Prom Something Something Special Special Where Who Work Years You

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Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to have the time to go and give back to people who don't have the opportunities I have. It's a very important thing to me.

~Ashley Greene

Topics: Acting Back Big Charity Give Go Immerse Important Important Thing Me Myself Opportunities People Piece Puzzle Smaller Thing Things Time Very Want Who

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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.

~Ban Ki-Moon

Topics: Advancing Charity Important Important Role Nations Plays Role United United Nations Values Work

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Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.

~Ban Ki-Moon

Topics: Charity Claim Condition Demeaning Dismissed Donors Enterprise Even Gets Heart Human Human Condition Inappropriate Ineffective Investment Let Us Noble Pains Recipient Recognize Some Somehow Sometimes Strangely Take Us

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At a time when we aim to accelerate our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and define a bold agenda for the period beyond 2015, the role of charity can and should grow. U.N. bodies such as the U.N. Volunteers Programme and UNICEF offer venues for people across the world to get involved.

~Ban Ki-Moon

Topics: Accelerate Achieve Across Agenda Aim Beyond Bodies Bold Charity Define Development Efforts Get Goals Grow Involved Millennium Offer Our People Period Programme Role Should Time Unicef Venues Volunteers World

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