Quote by Paul Farmer
If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know its hard to p

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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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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So I cant show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable. – Paul Farmer

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Weve taken on the major health problems of the poorest – tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria – in four countries. Weve scored some victories in the sense that weve cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible. – Paul Farmer

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Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can. – Serj Tankian

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Thus at the beginning of 1906 it seemed to be established that the emitters of the spectral series of chemical elements are their positive atomic ions. – Johannes Stark

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We made happy sounds because we were upset… just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one. – Ian Williams

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President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the financial crisis thats been a shame. – Glenn Hubbard

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