"The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires no vaccinators, distributes no vaccine. It is a small Geneva bureaucracy run by several hundred international delegates whose annual votes tell the organization what to do but not how to do it.â€¦The only substantial resource that WHO has cultivated is information and expertise."

-- Atul Gawande

#Running Quotes #Organization Quotes #Vaccines Quotes

“Stand fully in the now moment with gratitude, enthusiasm, openness, and readiness to respond to Life as it greets you.”

Source : FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Nov 24, 2012
“I ask God every day to give me the words to tell the kids. That's my mentality, and that's what I'm intending to do.”

Source : "La'el Collins Q&A: Cowboys Rookie on Murder Investigation and Draft Plummet". Interview with Jason Cole, bleacherreport.com. July 15, 2015.
“When we're done with employer-based health insurance, it will have as much life in it as Jimmy Hoffa.”
“Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.”
“The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.”
“You know, this is why I just don't answer the door (unless I know who's arriving). I don't want to fend off pint-sized salesfolk or tie-with-short-sleeved-shirt-wearing adults. But if you are going to answer the door in your own house, what's wrong with being armed? What makes people feel entitled to a kid-friendly greeting when they disturb random strangers in their homes?”
“In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.”
“Love is ever where the heart will find it no matter how unlikely seems the place.”

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