Quote by Michelle Bachelet
As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere,

As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor. Now, they tell me, I want to be president just like you. All of us can dream as big as we want. – Michelle Bachelet

Other quotes by Michelle Bachelet

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards. – Michelle Bachelet

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respect
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One of the factors a countrys economy depends on is human capital. If you dont provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and womens empowerment bring huge economic benefits. – Michelle Bachelet

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Education
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Health
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This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on. – Gro Harlem Brundtland

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Health

We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does. – Donald Berwick

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Health

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them. – Aldous Huxley

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Health

Walking is magic. Cant recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps…this is a primal way to connect with ones deeper self. – Paula Cole

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Health

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The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence. – Robert Rainy

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I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use. – Julian Cope

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positive

Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation. – Sherri Shepherd

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Education

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. – Corazon Aquino

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Death