We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.
One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.
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Marcel Proust
A philosopher's main task is to compulsively filibuster
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Mohadesa Najumi
Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.
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Carl R White
How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephant. It was never more applicable than to the present subject. If the...
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David Hume
We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
More Quotes By Paul Farmer
It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.
Human rights violations are not accidents; they are not random in distribution or effect. Rights violations are, rather, symptoms of deeper pathologies of power and are linked intimately to the social conditions that so often determine who will suffer abuse and who will be shielded...
Human rights violations are nit accidents; they are not random in distribution or effect. Rights violations are, rather, symptoms of deeper pathologies of power and are linked intimately to the social conditions that so often determine who will suffer abuse and who will be shielded...
I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea, ' to quote Gandhi.
