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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. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#aids #changed #countries #cured #discourse

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#build #capacity #competition #health #just

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul. ↗

— Eliza Farnham

#development #experience #face #human #human face

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition. ↗

— Eliza Farnham

#body #church #credited #drag #know

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance. ↗

— Eduardo Chillida

#any #anything #had #i #known

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#artist #being #both #called #capable

But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball - and David wasn't anything like that. ↗

— Richard Farnsworth

#anything #ball #care #david #directors

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#away #buildings #claim #earth #fence

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#desired #first #great #great spirit #had

Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country? ↗

— Sitting Bull

#because #born #country #die #father