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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."
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"It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president."
Blame
"Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition."
Dying
"As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India."
Job
"I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight."
Wrong
"A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality."
Nation
"All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night."
Philosophy
"I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership."
Reading
"While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction."
Politics
"The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there."
Thought
"The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food."
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"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."
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Personal Development
"Not everybody that says that you suck is a hater. There are people who suck."
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Personal Development
"The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things."
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"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly, the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
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"Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences."
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Personal Development
"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
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Personal Development
"In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape."
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Personal Development
"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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Personal Development
"Nobody's sane above the law."
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Personal Development
"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
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