"It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care."

-- Paul Farmer

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“In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.”
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.”
“Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.”
“The idea that we need to â€œpay our duesâ€ is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.”
“Things use to be real nice, til they got out of hand. Since they moved in, they call themselves the Taliban.”
“I'm the smartest man in the world. Once I wore a cape in public, and fought battles against men who could fly, who had metal skin, who could kill you with their eyes. I fought CoreFire to a standstill, and the Super Squadron, and the Champions. Now I have to shuffle through a cafeteria line with men who tried to pass bad checks. Now I have to wonder if there will be chocolate milk in the dispenser. And whether the smartest man in the world has done the smartest thing he could do with his life.”

Source : "Unconventional Education Fuels Author's First Novel". Interview with James Hattori, www.npr.org. October 14, 2007.
“my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.”

Source : William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated
“I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.”

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