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There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs.

~Dustin Moskovitz

Topics: Better Complacency Crowds Enough Even Figure Good Inefficient Lot Organizations Out People Philanthropy Programs Results Trying Wasteful

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Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.

~Elijah Wood

Topics: Comfort Complacency Good Good Place Never Place Safety Working

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Christians are as subject to complacency as anybody else, and we can certainly settle into repetition and forget that something radical and extraordinary is being asked of us as well - that we hold to an extraordinary promise about how, from moment to moment, something enters the world and enters us, after which everything is different.

~Francis Spufford

Topics: About After Anybody Anybody Else Asked Being Certainly Christians Complacency Different Else Everything Extraordinary Forget Hold How Moment Promise Radical Repetition Settle Something Subject Us Well Which World

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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: After Always Breath Complacency Draw First Fresh Outburst Vanity

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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

~Gavin Newsom

Topics: Any Breed Complacency Economist Government Innovation Lack Monopolies Monopoly Often Tell Ultimate Will You

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The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: About Action Complacency Connected Designed Empowerment Far Happen Interactive Little Make Make It Happen Many Mixed Much Passive People Picture Pretty Smug Talk Technologies Technology Too Too Many People Too Much Users

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