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"I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there."
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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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"You can stroke people with words."
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"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."
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"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
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"There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in."
Society
"You would see people going back to homes that had been burned, putting thatch over their structures again. They still couldn't leave the area without the danger of men being killed or women being raped, but it was a start."
Man
"Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea."
Age
"Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect."
Woman
"I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there."
People
"If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic."
Philosophy
"You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch."
Philosophy
"Random violence is incredibly infectious."
Philosophy
"One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot."
Family
"The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding."
Health
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