"Drug companies spend more on advertising and marketing than on research, more on research on lifestyle drugs than on life saving drugs, and almost nothing on diseases that affect developing countries only. This is not surprising. Poor people cannot afford drugs, and drug companies make investments that yield the highest returns."

-- Joseph Stiglitz

#Country Quotes #Yield Quotes #People Quotes

“Everything you do in war is a crime in peace”
“"From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius," Gibbon says again, "the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion of Rome which repeatedly broke out in the most furious massacres and insurrections. Humanity is shocked at the recital of the horrid cruelties which the Jews committed in the cities of Egypt, of Cyprus, and of Cyrene, where they dwelt in treacherous friendship with the unsuspecting natives...In Cyrene they massacred 220,000 Greeks; in Cyprus 240,000; in Egypt a very great multitude. Many of these unhappy victims were sawed asunder..."”

Source : Nesta Helen Webster (1921). “World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization”
“You walk in my dreams, Leafpool”
“The fundamentalist Zionist lobby controls politics and the media in the US and Australia.”

Source : "Zionism: too many meanings make communication too hard?". www.smh.com.au. July 26, 2004.
“They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.”
“It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character.”
“Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.”
“When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.”

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