Fred Hollows famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I believe that the basic attribute of mankind is to look after each other
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Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the prime minster or the king.
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To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities.
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I studied medicine so I could help others - set a leg or whatever - and it's given me a great deal of satisfaction.
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When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it.
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The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.
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I have been lucky in that I've been alive at times when the things that I wanted to do were capable of being done.
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You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that turn out to be wrong.
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Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.
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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
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I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.
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Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
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Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
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You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.
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Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
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Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God.
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The cologne you pick should make you feel good when you go out with it. I think confidence comes across more than any other of our attributes.
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Nature is the chart of God, mapping out all His attributes.
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