“In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.”
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“In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.”
“The mood was terrible. You could see it in everybody's eyes. The body language was just defeated. When they put me in I was hoping I could give us some energy and try to bring us back.”
“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.”
“If you're callin' 'bout my heart, it's still yours / I should've listened to it a little more / Then it wouldn't have taken me so long / To know where I belong”
“The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on.”
“You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.”
“Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.”
“Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.”
“The product has to work. It has to be a good product. An enormous number of them are all hype with no value at all. People get into them because they want to make a lot of quick, easy money.”
“Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.”
“Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?”
“Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.”
“Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...”
“Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.”
“We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.”
“I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.”
“Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?”
“We therefore work, not for the work's sake, but for money—and money is supposed to get us what we really want in our hours of leisure and play. In the United States even poor people have lots of money compared with the wretched and skinny millions of India, Africa, and China, while our middle andupper classes (or should we say "income groups") are as prosperous as princes. Yet, by and large, they have but slight taste for pleasure. Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy.”
“So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.”