"We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used it to predict biological threats. Otherwise we'll be blindsided again and again."

-- Nathan Wolfe

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“Don't keep that money waiting, it get impatient.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“[..] and there are tons of people I hate so much that I wouldn't mind taking them out. But killing them wouldn't get me anywhere - that's the conclusion I always come to. If I'm going to pay for it in the end, I might as well let them live.”
“I submit that President Obama and all the democrat politicians that voted for Obamacare never even read the proposed law. Nancy Pelosi admitted it. So, now, when chaos reigns, they act surprised that things aren't working.”
“The environment is everything that isn't me.”
“I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician. These are merely tools used by sensitive men to carve out a piece of beauty or truth that they hope may lead to peace and salvation.”

Source : Gil Scott-Heron (1990). “So Far, So Good”
“The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive”
“Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.”

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