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Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey / Author
Change
Encouragement
Power
Freedom
Imagination
Awareness
Conscience
Creative
Endowment
Four
Human Freedom
Independent
Inspirational Life
Self
Ultimate
Will
Change Freedom Power
Us
Choose
Every
Respond
Human
Give
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Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.
Ezra Cornell / New York State Senator
Endowment
Colleges
Effect
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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Thomas Aquinas / Priest
Equality
Nature
Endowment
Equal
Liberty
Powerful
Thoughtful
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We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.
Leonard Ravenhill / Author
Agonizing
Endowment
Equipment
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The Call of Duty Endowment is a natural philanthropic extension of our brand.
Bobby Kotick /
Endowment
Philanthropic
Extension
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That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.
Mary Astell / Writer
Men
Be Good
Endowment
Heart
Good Heart Man
Himself
Indeed
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I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.
Jane Alexander / Film Actress
Endowment
Reputation
Unfair
Began
Last Few Years
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Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.
Norm Dicks / Former U.s. Representative
Chairman
Disaster
Endowment
Mr
Cut
Million
Obviously
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I distributed my wealth among my children and set aside a portion for endowment to run charity projects.
Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi /
Charity
Endowment
Wealth
Aside
Distributed
Portion
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This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.
Norm Dicks / Former U.s. Representative
Art
Appreciate
Approval
Endowment
Funding
Good Housekeeping
Housekeeping
Arts
Seal
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What a thrill it is to have my writing recognized by an institution as admirable and vital as the National Endowment for the Arts.
Dean Bakopoulos /
Admirable
Endowment
Thrill
Institution
Recognized
Vital
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Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.
Ronald Kessler /
Assets
Billions
Dollars
Endowment
Former
Investors
Pension
Romney
Billions Of Dollars
Capital
Funds
Mitt
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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 / Philosopher
Friendship
Motivational
Truth
Endowment
Faithfulness
Fidelity
Human Mind
Mind
Noble
Sacred
Nothing
More
Human
Than
Venerable
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The Celtic, Galatian, or Gallic nation received from the common mother endowments different from those of its Italian, Germanic, and Hellenic sisters.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Celtic
Endowment
Italian
Sisters
Germanic
Received
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That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.
David Selby / Character Actor
Endowment
Commercially
Enables
Ventures
Viable
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Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.
Harry Emerson Fosdick / Preacher
Men
Capacity
Endowment
Human Life
Mystery
Riddle
Unfathomable
Life Man Universe
Capacities
Involves
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In '89, I got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. That's when I started to get into group shows. Suddenly, I sort of 'came out' as an artist.
Glenn Ligon / Visual Artist
Endowment
Grant
Group
Suddenly
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Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.
E. L. Doctorow / Author
Angry
Duress
Endowment
Moral
Always Angry Me
Fellow
Seemed
Truer
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There have been many great newspapermen, but to my mind, only two have achieved immortality: Pulitzer for his endowment and William Randolph Hearst for his castle.
Nell Scovell /
Endowment
Immortality
Achieved
Castle
William
Pulitzer
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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 /
Endowment
Greater
Pride
Remedy
Spiritual
Truth Is
Account
Adorned
Gifts
Namely
None
Perhaps
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
Gary Bauer / Activist
Art
Degrading
Endowment
President
Use
Activities
Amoral
Arts
Funds
Programs
Subsidize
Promote
Taxpayer
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Either we leave our descendants an endowment of zero poverty, zero fossil-fuel use, and zero biodiversity loss, or we leave them facing a tax bill from Earth that could wipe them out.
Johan Rockstrom /
Zero
Biodiversity
Descendants
Endowment
Loss
Poverty
Wipe
Tax
Bill
Either
Leave
Facing
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I asked the man on the phone from the National Endowment for the Arts what this fellowship entailed, and he said, 'Well, first there's $10,000.' I asked him, 'Can I pay it in installments?'
Johnny Gimble /
Endowment
Fellowship
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There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women - especially when you realize women buy 70 percent of all theater tickets.
Marsha Norman / Playwright
Art
Endowment
Percent
Play
Quota
Theater
Thinking
Tickets
Arts
Buy
Issue
Production
Plays
Realize
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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 Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Equality
Endowment
Equal
Notion
Opening
Pursuit
Traditional
Confuse
Element
Recover
Schools
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Usually, people in the Islamic world set aside one-third or one-fourth of their wealth for endowment, and that will be effective only after their death. But in my case, I decided to implement this decision in my lifetime itself.
Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi /
Decided
Endowment
Islamic
Lifetime
Wealth
Aside
Case
Set
Effective
Implement
Islamic World
One-Third
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We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live.
Peter Mcwilliams / Author
Animal
Blushing
Endowment
Laughing
Any Given Moment
Choosing
Option
Exercising
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After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I worked on from 1962-66. The original idea was to take the regular facts and put a libertarian assessment on everything.
Murray Rothbard / Economist
Assessment
Endowment
Fund
Ideas
Libertarian
Collapsed
Grant
Original Idea
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What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something along the lines of 'eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.' But they can't say that, or people would realize they're crazy.
Ann Coulter / Commentator
Art
Cleansing
Crazy
Endowment
Funding
Lines
Mean
Ethnic
Liberals
Taxpayer
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I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award. I couldn't buy a light bulb. Almost more than the money, the awards are important because they show that someone believes in you.
Sandra Cisneros / Writer
Endowment
Light
Light Bulb
Rescue
Writer
Arts
Award
Believes
Bulb
Buy
Gave
National
Press
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Earning high returns isn't just a matter of bragging rights - endowment income supports the missions of nonprofit institutions, whether education, as with college and universities, or broader social programs, as at many private foundations.
James B. Stewart /
Bragging
Earning
Endowment
Income
Missions
Broader
Foundations
Programs
Nonprofit
Private
Returns
Supports
Universities
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With 'Poison,' I'm sure some people just hated the movie, but it also got caught up into a debate about arts funding because it was a film that received a National Endowment for the Arts Public Grant, and it won the prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
Todd Haynes / Film Director
Caught
Debate
Endowment
Funding
Hated
Poison
Prize
Sundance
Festival
Film Festival
Grant
Received
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Working on a token is similar to working on a startup: higher risk and lower initial impact but higher upside potential. How core protocol work is best funded beyond the initial Ethereum Foundation endowment is an open question, but likely further out.
Fred Ehrsam /
Core
Endowment
Foundation
Higher
Impact
Protocol
Risk
Beyond
Ethereum
Further
Initial
Likely
Lower
Potential
Question
Similar
Startup
Token
Upside
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The National Endowment for the Arts distributes money to all 50 states, and they try to do their best to distribute to rural and suburban areas. It's one of the great things about the program. It raises the awareness of culture throughout the population.
Bill Foster / U.s. Representative
Endowment
Great Things
Population
Program
Raises
States
Best Money Great
Area
Arts
Distribute
National
Rural
Suburban
Throughout
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Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment He could give His daughters, a sacred trust that gave women an unparalleled role in helping His children keep their second estate.
Sheri L. Dew / Author
Trust
Blessed
Endowment
Helping
Left
Motherhood
Ordination
Our Father
Priesthood
Sacred
Daughters
After
Estate
Gave
Role
Second
Sons
Unparalleled
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Paradoxically, resource-rich developing countries are often worse off than comparable countries that lack those resources. One reason for this is that large resource endowments provide a huge financial incentive for attempts to overthrow the government and seize power.
Peter Singer / Philosopher
Developing
Developing Countries
Endowment
Financial
Attempts
Comparable
Countries
Incentive
Large
Overthrow
Paradoxically
Provide
Resource
Seize
Worse
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When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments.
Joseph B. Wirthlin / Businessman
Marriage
Baptized
Brethren
Commandments
Covenant
Endowment
Eternal
Everlasting
Priesthood
Sacred
Solemn
Commitments
Confirmed
Enter
Ordained
Receive
Temple
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The Crystal Cathedral Ministries, the assets and the buildings, would still be in the hands of the ministries if my father would have simply walked away. When I accepted the role as the next senior pastor, he had agreed to be an ambassador-at-large and raise funds for the endowment fund. He didn't do that.
Robert A. Schuller /
Accepted
Assets
Endowment
Fund
Pastor
Senior
Agreed
Buildings
Cathedral
Crystal
Raise
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
Hans Haacke / Artist
Art
Endowment
Holocaust
Issues
Museums
Statements
Upset
Arts
Attempt
Dictate
Politicians
Spin
Supposedly
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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 / Former Governor Of New York
Adequate
Done
Endowment
Equity
Financial
Financial Services
Imagine
Management
Pension
Products
Skills
Companies
Demanded
Funds
Mortgages
Revisit
Services
Sold
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We need women who are devoted to shepherding God's children along the covenant path toward exaltation; women who know how to receive personal revelation, who understand the power and peace of the temple endowment; women who know how to call upon the powers of heaven to protect and strengthen children and families; women who teach fearlessly.
Russell M. Nelson / Surgeon
Children
Covenant
Devoted
Endowment
Exaltation
Heaven
Path
Protect
Teach
Understand
Along
Call
Families
Fearlessly
Personal
Powers
Receive
Revelation
Strengthen
Temple
Toward
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