"Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved."
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"Begin to be now what you will be hereafter."
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"... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live."
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"Peace is your priority, not saving the world. That follows that."
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"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."
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"I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am."
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"Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal."
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"Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment."
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"Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause - and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spend it?"
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"You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest."
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"Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patients renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving."
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"My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'"
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"I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving."
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"Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection."
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"Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!"
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"Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow."
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"Saving lives, one day at a time, just like always"
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"Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a close relative and thereby your own genes, or you help somebody else now in return for their help in the future. When a very high-ranking male chimpanzee rescues a little orphan, saving his life, that kind of explanation doesn't work."
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"Nobody ever lost money taking a profit"
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"Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer."
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