"Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody."

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Paul Farmer

“We have met the enemy and have learned nothing more about him. I have, however, learned some things about myself. There are things men can do to one another that are sobering to the soul. It is one thing to reconcile these things with God, but another to square it with yourself.”
“Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.”
“I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!”
“John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.”
“Spirituality is not for sale. It must be developed.”
“Utility is the true criterion of beauty.”
“However much I may be impressed by the difference between a star and the dark space around it, I must not forget that I can see the two only in relation to each other, and that this relation is inseparable.”
“Moreover, there is this completely false trial. I would participate wholeheartedly in a trial if it were to determine the guilt for 5 million murdered people and the guilt for the atrocities. But I see in this trial endless other things brought out and I have the feeling that in the shadow of the guilt of these murders the German people shall be considered guilty of everything, and in the shadow of this guilt the Americans, English, French, and especially the Russians will want to get rid of their own dirty linen.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, (p. 71), 2004.

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