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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
"Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health."
Health
"I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight."
Wrong
"Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea."
Age
"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
"It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case."
Philosophy
"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
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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Personal Development
"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."
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Personal Development
"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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Personal Development
"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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Personal Development
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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Personal Development
"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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Personal Development
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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Personal Development
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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Personal Development
"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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Personal Development
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