"The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered."

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Nicholas D. Kristof

#Issues Quotes #Each Day Quotes #Labor Quotes

“In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness.”

Source : "A Healing Balance" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.
“America is a great place, speech is free and you're able to expose the fact that you're an idiot,”

Source : "Golden Globes 2012: 'Modern Family' Stars Criticize Anti-Gay Protesters, Defend Show" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 15, 2012.
“Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.”
“So many young decorators are trying to reinvent the wheel, and the results are sometimes very dubious. They're striving to do things that have never been done before. Quite often it is done without authority, without knowledge, and without a background in taste. They need to be educated about the past, and they need a richer vocabulary.”
“Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.”
“Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.”

Source : Preface (written 1918)
“The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.”
“Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.”

Source : Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.389, The Floating Press

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