Mechai Viravaidya Quotes

• Take No as a question.

  Mechai Viravaidya

  Creativity, Innovation

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• We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

  Mechai Viravaidya

  Tree, Rubber, Deals

  Interview with Dan Rivers, www.cnn.com. July 23, 2007.

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• People like to have fun and they like to laugh. And when you laugh, it's much easier to convince people and they laugh with you, rather than being angry. And I think laughter's always nice and I've always liked it.

  Mechai Viravaidya

  Laughter, Fun, Nice

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• People were having sex before I was born. My parents had sex before I was born, nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to stop sex. I'm trying to stop people from dying from sex.

  Mechai Viravaidya

  Sex, People, Parent

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• I left the government because I saw the only way to get family planning moving, was to do it outside the government. I was never disillusioned with government.

  Mechai Viravaidya

  Moving, Government, Way

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• The condom has saved so many lives and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

  Mechai Viravaidya

  Tree, Rubber, Condom

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• AIDS is still around. Therefore, you have to practice safe sex.

  Mechai Viravaidya

  Sex, Practice, Safe

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• Most people don't want to work in commercial sex. They have little choice.

  Mechai Viravaidya

  Sex, People, Choices

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• What could I do with $1 million? What can I do with the satisfaction that I perhaps today helped somebody to have a better life. That's real reward. The million dollars, nothing.

  Mechai Viravaidya

  Real, Dollars, Rewards

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• We're the ones causing global warming. In fact, what we ought to be saying is population growth is a major cause of it, so I hope to have a T-shirt out very, very soon: Stop global warming, use condoms.

  Mechai Viravaidya

  Growth, Causes, Facts

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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