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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Aids

"[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Aids

"The US really has to get out in front. We are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute."

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Bono Musician, Activist
Aids

"U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali."

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Bono Musician, Activist
Aids

"You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS."

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"...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures."

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Barack Obama Politician
Aids

"Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need."

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Barack Obama Politician
Aids

"What I've said is we're going to encourage democracy in Pakistan, expand our nonmilitary aid to Pakistan so that they have more of a stake in working with us, but insisting that they go after these militants."

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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
Aids

"He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates."

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Win Butler Musician
Aids

"Once I got to know what's been happening historically, it's pretty impossible to un-know it. Like right now, there's the outbreak of cholera in Haiti, and people see that as a news headline, but I know there's half a billion dollars of aid that one senator is putting a hold on, that the Red Cross has raised half a billion dollars but has only spent $200 million."

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
Aids

"I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo"

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Aids

"Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains."

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