Linsey Quotes

#1. Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you're a nerd is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that?

John Green

#2. gimmicks. A closer look at the online school movement illustrates how tax dollars and philanthropic donations are being used to fuel huge windfalls in the private sector.

Linsey McGoey

#3. Wimpy coffee? I suppose you drink yours black?" "Black as my heart.

Linsey Hall

#4. reality, a businesslike approach to charity has been dominant within large-scale organized philanthropy for at least 120 years, ever since industrialists such as Carnegie and Rockefeller vowed to apply business techniques to the realm of philanthropy.

Linsey McGoey

#5. Gates and Allen's use of Harvard's lab space would return to haunt them over the years, as their rivals suggested time and again that Microsoft played a rigged business game,

Linsey McGoey

#6. But patents are not market devices. They are the opposite. They are a government-sanctioned monopoly permitting exclusive sales of a product for a limited period of time, protected by courts of law.

Linsey McGoey

#7. that 'the rich should be trusted to tithe, or should we have a society with a basic taxing-and-spending structure that ensures a modicum of economic security for all people?

Linsey McGoey

#8. Behind them, the white caps of the mountains gleamed like wicked teeth.

Tam Linsey

#9. sought the council of his tribe. When did my people decide to let one person rule without question?

Tam Linsey

#10. Despite a history of policy reversals and failed efforts, the foundation continues to be upheld as an exemplary and uniquely results-oriented organization.

Linsey McGoey

#11. Perhaps there was no God. God was a creation of man, not the other way around.

Tam Linsey

#12. I couldn't help but get a tingly sense of desire whenever I saw gold. I'd always feared that if I took some, I'd really turn into a FireSoul, crouched on my horde of gold like Scrooge McDuck.

Linsey Hall

#13. Anyone who's ever run a business knows that hiring more people is a capitalist's course of last resort, something we do only when increasing customer demand requires it. In this sense, calling ourselves job creators isn't just inaccurate, it's disingenuous'.

Linsey McGoey

#14. This, fundamentally, is philanthrocapitalism in action: introducing policies that help concentrate wealth in the upper echelons of society in the hope that the wealthy will donate to the financially strapped rest.

Linsey McGoey

#15. Philanthropists themselves are often the first to admit that their philanthropy is aimed at preserving rather than redistributing wealth.

Linsey McGoey

#16. The idea that we should augment the wealth of the richest 1 per cent so they have more to spend on charity is trickle-down theory in its baldest form.

Linsey McGoey

#17. Many reporters believed, Dvorak writes, that if you ended up in the 'needs work' category, Microsoft would take pains to try and have you fired.

Linsey McGoey

#18. What's the best way to make sure that the poor have a share in a country's growing wealth: Regulation? Taxes? Philanthropy?

Linsey McGoey

#19. There are always costs when man alters nature, his own or the world around him.

Tam Linsey

#20. What's novel today is the outspoken way that powerful donors admit and even champion the fact that gift-giving is a useful vehicle for preserving privilege, something that distinguishes them from earlier donors.

Linsey McGoey

#21. What was he supposed to do with five abominations? What would he tell his people?

Tam Linsey

#22. the sun remained hidden as if ashamed of the havoc below. "That's

Tam Linsey

#23. the Carnegie approach to wealth: increase concentration at the top and hope wealth reaches the masses through charitable bequests.

Linsey McGoey

#24. private philanthropy is no substitution for hard-fought battles over labour laws and social security, in part because philanthropy can be retracted on a whim, while elected officials, at least in theory, have citizens to answer to.

Linsey McGoey

#25. Maybe it was paranoia on my part, but paranoia had kept me alive for a long time. We were good buddies.

Linsey Hall

#26. She looked like a sin he wanted to commit.

Linsey Hall

#27. The rain had begun at dusk, spewing from the sky like someone had opened an artery. Beneath

Tam Linsey

#28. Strangely, the greater the debilitating toll poverty takes on the lives of America's schoolchildren, the more taboo discussions of poverty have become.

Linsey McGoey

#29. Levi was not so pious. Surely, it never occurred to Abraham that God was toying with him.

Tam Linsey

#30. I don't know how to protect you. The world's fucked up, and I feel like we're cripples limping through it together.

Tam Linsey