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" America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal. "
Goal
Opportunity
America
" During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses. "
Oil
Gas
Depression
" If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty. Find a way to give poor kids the same cognitive stimulus that rich kids receive, and they should end up with the same tools for success. "
Good
You
Success
" If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there. "
You
Else
Doing
" In the charitable world as in the business world, opportunities should drive budgets, not the other way around. "
Drive
Business
Opportunities
" I prefer doing things rather than sitting around talking about doing things. "
Sitting
Things
Talking
" I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck. "
Luck
Character
Commitment
" Maybe the perceived fact that smart, rich parents tended to have smart, rich kids was largely due to the fact that they also tended to have stay-at-home moms or nannies who read to their kids, held them, put mobiles over their cribs, playing those annoying ditties, and sent them off for SAT training at six months. "
Parents
Smart
Training
" Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose. "
Better
More
Support
" Rich, smart parents tend to have rich, smart kids - not because it's genetic but because they can create a home environment and sensory stimulation that lower-income kids often don't get. "
Environment
Smart
Rich
" Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to help restore the American Dream. "
Help
American Dream
Parents
" Truly, learning appears to be a reverse geometric progression with experiences at one hour, one day, one month or one year dramatically more influential and formative than later experiences. As has often been quoted, 85% of brain development takes place by age 3, and yet we spend only 4% of our educational dollars by that point. "
Brain
Age
Place
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