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As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being is born equally capable. What people lack is equal opportunity.


Pierre Omidyar

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Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.
PIERRE OMIDYAR Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentall...
ANDREW MASON This event is a practical opportunity for people to take part and take ownership of their local area...
ANDREW LEWIS What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER The truth is I try to take people as I find them.
TONY ABBOTT The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and shoul...
ANNA GARLIN SPENCER See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS My main goal in life is to be happy. If I can make other people happy by doing what I love, then I f...
CYRILLE AIMEE It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what ...
FEIST The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking...
TAMORA PIERCE Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal...
CHARLES MANSON This is the image from which he was born...... Characters are not born, like people, of woman; they ...
MILAN KUNDERA Every single night, I try to get people to realize that love is what is most important, and that the...
DELILAH Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you c...
LARRY THE CABLE GUY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Most people have a very strong sense of organizational ownership, but I think what people have to ow...
SATYA NADELLA There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, th...
NAVEEN JAIN When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th...
CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD (The walk-a-thon) is something I've done every year of my life. I just try to help out as much as I ...
JASON MCLAUGHLIN It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thin...
KARL MARLANTES The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how the...
RALPH LAUREN I think timing is everything.
TIONNE WATKINS Einmal hat ihm einer im Schlaf die Schuhe ausgezogen, reingeschissen und wieder angezogen. Um diese ...
HEINZ STRUNK But I do not do these things because we are a family. I do them because they are common decencies. T...
JOHNATHAN SAFRAN FOER He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as sim...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me ...
ALEXEI NAVALNY Our job is to help people take ownership of the process of electing their government. As leaders, ou...
DAVID IGE You know, public service is serious enough on its own, and what I've found is if you take yourse...
MICHAEL NUTTER I try to be as real and honest about everything and very genuine with people and say, 'Listen, I...
TIM TEBOW I've had the opportunity to experience firsthand how tech companies can help people in their dai...
RUTH PORAT Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. ...
ANTHONY LAPAGLIA His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal rig...
CHARLES MANSON When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their ...
JACK KEMP When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their ...
JACK KEMP I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried ...
KAJOL I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because o...
ZACK DE LA ROCHA I always try to get people a different outlook. When you do that, people take ownership of the infor...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON After the holidays, I am going to try to get a status of everything and what the plans are. I know a...
BERNICE LINTON I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that's...
KEVIN GATES I've done literally everything there is to do on a baseball field as a pitcher.
DREW POMERANZ I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been...
KURT VONNEGUT So in actual fact every human being is equally wealthy according to God’s divine Providence
SUNDAY ADELAJA This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equ...
ALLEN WEST I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a ...
PAT BUCKLEY We're a very active family, and I like everything in its place. I'm all about designing ever...
CANDICE OLSON Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born...
HELEN HAYES Life is a Long Journey between Human Being and Being Human. Let's take at least one step
each d...
DRISHTI BABLANI Sooner or later, what you do will speak
SOTONYE ANGA Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is goi...
WARREN SPECTOR It's definitely a struggle to prove yourself just as a good human being. I'm so proud of who...
TINA YOTHERS I think that, a lot of times, people have this idea that the solar system is entirely explored, that...
CARRIE NUGENT Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I reall...
SAM RAIMI The good part about being famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have t...
MICHAEL JORDAN I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.
DOUG HUTCHISON Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as...
WILLIAM EARL BROWN If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people...
STEVE GLEASON There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them...
FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them...
F.A. HAYEK There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK To err is human, but it feels divine.
MAE WEST Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what r...
MARILYN MANSON Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a ma...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as...
JOHN OLIVER I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doin...
JAMES DURBIN Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don't. I take...
RAY LEWIS I want to burn as a beacon of possibility. I don't want nobody to misconstrue the commercial suc...
CEELO GREEN The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
WILFRID SELLARS FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ...
LERCHE NJANG Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every w...
LIONEL MESSI What I try to teach people is take responsibility for yourself. You can raise the odds in your favor...
CAROL RANDALL Even with the approach that I take in Congress, which is to bring people together to get things done...
CHRIS GIBSON I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN I've done every diet there is.
KATE WALSH Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously...
RACHEL TRUE I try as much to help a lot of people, but i never do any help just to please, every help i do i do ...
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PIERRE CORNEILLE And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
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PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS We are extremely excited to announce that Milan Hejduk has decided to commit to this franchise for t...
PIERRE LACROIX Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there ...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER We're from New Orleans. When it's 42 degrees, it's cold.
PIERRE GANT Even when you don't see Him working, He's busy working on your behalf. Forever grateful for God's gr...
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