#endowments

Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

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That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments. ↗

— Mary Astell

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments. ↗

— Johann Arndt

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Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

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