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It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretc

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care. – Paul Farmer

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Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didnt have them anywhere else. – Paul Farmer

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The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, theyre major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems. – Paul Farmer

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If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know its hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies. – Paul Farmer

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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. – Charles de Gaulle

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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. – Anne Sullivan Macy

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What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, Oh, what this really is is so-and-so, reducing it to a simple formula. – Doris Lessing

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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. – Thomas Carlyle

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Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come. – W.I.E. Gates, quoted in Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Times by Laurenc

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The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. – Alexander of Tralles

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To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. – Edmund Clarence Stedman

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