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Index_card_top “Wherever there is a human in need, there is an opportunity for kindness and to make a difference.”
 
Kevin Heath   Ceo More4kids
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Index_card_top “He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.”
 
Confucius  (551-479);
Philosopher
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Index_card_top “From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.”
 
Arthur Ashe  (1943-1993);
Professional Tennis Player, Civil Rights Supporter
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Index_card_top “We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”
 
Sir Winston Churchill  (1874-1965);
British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author, Nobel Prize Winner
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Index_card_top “A pessimist, they say, sees a glass as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty.”
 
G. Donald Gale  
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Index_card_top “To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy.”
 
Robert Louis Stevenson  (1850-1894);
Essayist, Poet, Novelist
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