"There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global society has evolved a highly efficient way to get entertainment to rich adults and children, while it can't get twelve-cent medicine to dying poor children."

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Source : William Easterly (2006). “The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good”, p.11, Penguin

William Easterly

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Medicine Quotes

“Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.”
“I don't want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point.”
“We are keenly in sympathy with the representatives of Labour. We have too few of them in the House of Commons. ...The Liberal party, high and low, have discovered, if they ever forgot it, that the real road to success...lies in adhering to the old principles of the party.”

Source : Speech to Liberals in Belmont on January 02, 1903. "CB: a life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman". Book by John Wilson, p. 394, 1973.
“A useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word.”

Source : The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan (2001), entry for 26 Oct 1975.
“Mailer's Law: A thing either gets better or it costs more to run it the way it was.”
“Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like.”
“Something awful is always going to happen, Arton. It's Sanctuary. You're a Stepson. Awful is a big part of your job.”
“Coaches give you too much information. Ive been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.”

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