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Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing. Patricia Reilly Giff

Family Me Writing Outside Like Essential Breathing

I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them. Patricia Reilly Giff

Thoughts People Writing Own Awareness Other Books Paper Finding See Write Like Make Talking Discover Provide Up Children Want Stories Them Themselves Connection

I am not one of those people who lives for work. I enjoy sculpting and photography and tennis and swimming. I simply do not have enough time. My life is not in control. Pattie Maes

Life Work Time Photography People My Life Control Swimming Enjoy Enough Enough Time Those Tennis Simply Am Sculpting Who Lives

I try to eat healthy, but being Belgian, I'm also addicted to chocolate. Pattie Maes

Try Healthy Addicted Eat Also Being Chocolate

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. Paul Eldridge

Truth Truth Is Facts Strangled Many

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living. Paul Eldridge

Reading Living Our Lies Only Dead Salvation Burying

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. Paul Eldridge

Sole Rules Those Claim Exceptions Discovery Whose Profundity

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. Paul Eldridge

History Transformation Silent Tumultuous Conquerors

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism. Paul Eldridge

Endeavor Universe Stuff Aphorism

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right. Paul Farmer

You Rights Considered About Prove End In The End Should Right Thing

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti. Paul Farmer

Health Care Country Big Wildfire More Knew Haiti Like Retrospect Health Care Spread Been Canary Any Done Which Public Us Public Health Should Working Cholera Prepare Rebuke

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water. Paul Farmer

Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti. Paul Farmer

People Believe Living Bronx Recommendations Be Different Boston Uncomfortable Since Haiti Making Am Patients Different Manhattan Should

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems. Paul Farmer

At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease. Paul Farmer

Time Challenges Treat Complications Faced Fact Attempting Haiti Obvious Greater Disease Same HIV Same Time Different In Fact

I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor. Paul Farmer

Doctor Became Up Grew Bus Mean

I'm not an austere person. Paul Farmer

Austere Person

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat. Paul Farmer

Kids Over Decade Six Eight Either Bus Boat Us Lived

I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully. Paul Farmer

Carefully Correct Record Somewhat Over Haitian How Proven Been Years Impressed Historical Comments Often Last

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else. Paul Farmer

Nature Training Lost Nothing Society Programs Else Earthquake Has-Been Weakness About Haiti Haitian Perhaps Obvious Talking Because Revealed Always Been Being Anywhere Anywhere Else Centralized Mean Them Medical

You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education. Paul Farmer

Education Health You Public Education Sector Without Public Public Health Working Public Sector

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