Word: gift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Regardless of whether these donations spring from mixed motivations, they still ought to be welcomed. Good money is being directed toward a good cause. The shadow of self-interest may be lurking in the background, but even while we look this gift horse in the mouth, we are still happy to see it given...
Heyman, chair and CEO of GAF Corporation, a maker of commercial roofing materials, made the gift out of a concern for the decrease in the number of law graduates going to Washington. Before entering the private sector, the now-billionaire Heyman began his career as a lawyer for the United States Justice Department...
...that humanity is wonderfully imperfect, but wonderful. We want to remain imperfect with problems, but we want to try to understand those problems. We just have to try to find peace in our souls. That's the message that my father gave me, that life is such a big gift and we should live it 100%. We should always keep our humor--it is the manifestation of life. We need to keep the humor and our identity and memory, our culture and people, and we need to open our arms and spirit to other people. That train...
...weeks ago the library sent me a beautiful gift folder. When I saw its embossed Harvard College Library seal and supple paper, my first reaction was to wash my hands, carefully place it back in the envelope and store it in a safe place for 50 years, when my grandkids are ready to apply to Harvard. My next idea was to wonder why the Library sent one of those hefty folders to every single undergraduate student in what was easily a $50,000-plus project. Without even beginning to address alternative uses for that kind of money, I must...
...lever that causes a discharge to the electrode, the animal will pull down on the lever again and again and again until it dies from hunger and exhaustion. No animal has the human capacity for self-control. But then, sadly, neither does any other animal have our gift for rationalization...