#met

Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

#adolescent #infection #lot #more #rate

I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

#around #community #extraordinary #here #i

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun. ↗

— Jet Li

#because #day #did #only #shots

France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors. ↗

— Bernard Liautaud

#enough #find #france #makes #needs

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#calculations #complex #experience #interesting #just

There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#beautiful place #because #become #below #competition

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#always #better #build #cards #castles

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#connects #free #friction #gliding #habit

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#comes #earth #exists #heaven #made

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#form #imitation #namely #opposite #something