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"I've never made a penny being a doctor, so that makes it not a job. My sense of a doctor is that one is a presence caring for health. So I'm never not a doctor. People call me from all over the world who are hurting, and I care for them. Chatting is what more people want than anything."
"What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal."
"I look at history, there's not a government on the planet I respect. No country in history was ever safe to its women; internet sex is $100 billion a year industry, and 15-20 million men a day have sex with a child in sexual slavery."
"We have to end the capitalist system. We have to make love our value. You are rich when you love and you are rich when you are giving away your time and what you have to help other people."
"One cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the community, from the health of the world."
"If you actually are a doctor and admitted it, you'd say, 'I don't cure a huge percentage, I don't have a 50 percent cure rate ... but I can have a 100 percent compassion rate'."
"I like giving. Doing something for somebody else feels good."
"Please give your life to peace, justice and care."
"Jump for joy as we accomplish the dreams we adore."
"I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people."
"We men should be ashamed of ourselves. I think 85 percent of men are dangerous to women. We need to change to a values system nested in compassion and generosity, and women have carried that torch throughout history."
"All the messages our kids are getting is money-taking, not giving."
"For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other."
"Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science."
"People crave laughter as if it were an essential amino acid."
"I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's a human invention."
"Faith can have a profound impact on health. It is a very personal experience of thought and surrender, which can comfort in every situation. Faith is free and available to all people at all times. It only requires that one fully embrace possibility, and the ultimate value is in the depth of the embrace."
"People like givers, people want to help givers. I get stuff all the time."
"No one ever writes me and says, 'We have a happy hospital'. Nowhere is doing it in a healthy way. That's encouragement for me."
"It's such a paradox for them to say, "Oh, my God, I've thrown away my life," and continue to do that for the last month of their life. I shake them, physically shake them, and say, "What about now? What about now?""