"The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame."

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Paul Farmer

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“...only we don't call it 'ignorance', we call it 'faith'. What a horrible little word that is - faith - exuding as it does its fake aura of purity and virtue while fronting some of the ugliest ideas this planet has ever seen. Closing people's hearts when it should be opening them. Making them proud of things they should be ashamed of. And ashamed of things they should be proud of.”
“The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.”
“It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet”
“We are ghosts, hungry for something bigger than what our lips are kissing.”
“Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare!”

Source : Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1778). “The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India: An Epic Poem”, p.53
“It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious.”
“We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.”

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