"In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care."

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Source : Laurie Garrett (2003). “Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health”, p.9

Laurie Garrett

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“For the workers and their families, being able to bring home a living wage helps their families and, by extension, helps our economy. Seventy percent of our economy is consumer-based. We know that when lower- and middle-class families have money and disposable income, they spend it. That puts money back into the economy. It's a win-win for everybody: Not just for the individual, not just production at a specific company (like Nissan), but for the greater good.”
“America is or should be about inclusion. Immigrants like muslims don't and can't fit the white European mold that prevailed in this country 50 years ago.”
“If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.”
“Perhaps the most significant event in the evolution of the liberated mind arrives with the realization that most people, even in their deepest convictions, are blind to most truths.”
“In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.”
“I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.”

Source : "France's Richest Man Bernard Arnault Sues Liberation Over Headline" by Stuart Kemp, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 11, 2012.
“I had never heard much about Nashville before coming out here, and that's why it's so surprising, because I'm the biggest enthusiast on the city of Nashville now. I'm looking for a place out here to live.”
“They're not mating are they?”

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