#ilan

When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal. ↗

— Saint Ambrose

#attend #church #custom #fast #follow

With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it. ↗

— Amanda Beard

#am #care #damaging #drying #good

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. ↗

— John Philpot Curran

#eternal #eternal vigilance #given #god #god hath

We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future. ↗

— Charlie Dent

#always #enjoy #freedom #future #holocaust

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#economic #enlightened #everyone #exercise #new

That ability to take in your surroundings and sort out the important stuff, to be aware, to be vigilant. Then take all that information, put it together, and see if it makes sense to you. ↗

— Paul Gleason

#aware #important #important stuff #information #makes

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#attempts #check #eternally #expression #loathe

He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#been #close #countenance #ears #expressive

There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God. ↗

— Catherine McAuley

#clearly #designs #god #guidance #here

Through their donations and work for voluntary organizations, the charitable rich exert enormous influence in society. As philanthropists, they acquire status within and outside of their class. Although private wealth is the basis of the hegemony of this group, philanthropy is essential to the maintenance and perpetuation of the upper class in the United States. In this sense, nonprofit activities are the nexus of a modern power elite. ↗

— Teresa Odendahl

#clinton #hegemony #non-profit #philanthropy #power-elite