#endowment

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

#faithfulness #fidelity #human #human mind #mind

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

#commercially #done #enables #endowment #important

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 E. Stevenson

#confuse #element #endowments #equal #equality

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#equal #liberty #men #nature #other

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

#adorned #against #before #better #endowments

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

#amoral #arts #degrading #end #endowment

I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#began #endowment #few #had #i

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

#endowment #every #his #human #human life

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

#being #change #companies #demanded #done

Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

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