"When you understand things, thereâ€™s no more magic,"

-- Tim Berners-Lee

“I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.”
“Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.”
“HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem.”

Source : "Interview with Dr. Margaret Chan". "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. April 16, 2007.
“What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?”
“I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.”
“Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.”
“No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.”
“There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute.”

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