Aids Quotes - Page 38

• Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went through that process.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Good Friend

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• One or two of my friends set longevity records for people who had AIDS. What they did, incredibly hard though it was, was to practice meditation, positive thinking and they worked out physically quite a bit.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Positive Thinking, Buddhism

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• The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Heart, Broken

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.72, Hoover Press

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• Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between smoking and cancer, as the people who denied the link between HIV and AIDS.

  Nicholas Stern

  Cancer, People, Smoking

  "Stern: Climate change deniers are 'flat-earthers'" by Sunny Hundal, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2009.

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• I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets.

  Charles M. Vest

  Income, Littles, Financial

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Character, Editors, Trying

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. January 7, 2010.

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• When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life.

  George Weah

  Growing Up, School, Popcorn

  "Africa's World Cup can make education a reality for all" by George Weah, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2010.

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• If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Discovery

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• Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.

  Nate Mendel

  Understanding, Mind, Hiv

  "Foo Fighter Fires Back" by Nate Mendel, www.motherjones.com. October 03, 2000.

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• I think we all realize that anyone can - and has - gotten AIDS. So there's obviously still a lot to be done.

  Eric McCormack

  Thinking, Done, Realizing

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• United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Trying, World, Irony

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• At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Stars, People, Waiting

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• Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.

  Margaret Fuller

  Class, Mad, Suffering

  Margaret Fuller (1869). “Life Without and Life Within: Or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems”, p.230

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• What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.

  David Levithan

  Girl, Teenage, White

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• Anything that has a relationship with pleasure we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about Aids; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Cancer, Sick, Smoking

  "Confessions of Miss Mischief". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

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• I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Years, Poverty, Grew Up

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• Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of conspiracy, have a clearly political analysis of the epidemic. But even if one attributes its cause to a microorganism rather than the wrath of God, or the workings of the CIA, it is clear that the way in which AIDS has been perceived, conceptualized, imagined, researched and financed makes this the most political of diseases.

  Dennis Altman

  Wrath, Epidemics, Political

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• Now a confirmed atheist, I've become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa: sharply distinct from the work of secular NGOs, government projects and international aid efforts. These alone will not do. Education and training alone will not do. In Africa Christianity changes people's hearts. It brings a spiritual transformation. The rebirth is real. The change is good.

  Matthew Parris

  Christian, Spiritual, Atheist

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• He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.

  Leon Trotsky

  Victim, Executioners, Slander

  Leon Trotsky (2000). “Their Morals and Ours: The Marxist View of Morality”, p.23, Resistance Books

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• My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Mother, Father, World

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 8, 2011.

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• Be bold: Venus herself aids the stout-hearted.

  Tibullus

  Venus, Stout, Hearted

  Tibullus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Tibullus (Illustrated)”, p.230, Delphi Classics

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• The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

  B. C. Forbes

  Friendship, Loyalty, True Friend

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• An army should always be so distributed that its parts can aid each other and combine to produce the maximum possible concentration of force at one place, while the minimum force necessary is used elsewhere to prepare the success of the concentration.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Army, Used

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• What you do [to provide better aid is] you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas.

  Ernesto Sirolli

  Motivation, Inspiration, Ideas

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• What I find more remarkable, however, is how readily many people in our society believe outlandish and unsubstantiated urban myths and conspiracies (Pop Rocks and Coke, JFK assassination, AIDS is man-made, etc.), yet disregard thousands of personal and consistent testimonies of miracles and near-death experiences from people throughout all cultures and religions.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

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