What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world…

Anne Lamott
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What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?
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What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?

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