Mechai Viravaidya Quotes

When you start learning how to give when you're young, when you get older it is second nature. Just like stealing. Start young and you keep on stealing forever. Ask my politicians.

Mechai Viravaidya

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
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  • Birth: January 17, 1941

Topics

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The worst mistake anyone can make is to perceive anyone else as lesser. The deeper you look into other souls - and writing is primarily an exercise in doing just that - the clearer people's inherent dignity becomes.

Andrew Solomon

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When you can have a character that the audience likes from the beginning, but then you put them in a situation where they grow - I think that gives it a lot of heart.

John Lasseter

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What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.

Robert H. Schuller

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I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

John Sayles

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There are more dog owners in America than there are conservatives.

Roger Stone

DogAmericaMoreThanConservatives

The refurbishing and rebuilding of Fenway Park since 2001 has created a new urban neighborhood in Boston.

Mike Barnicle

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One letter to bin Laden reveals that al Qaeda was working on chemical and biological weapons in Iran.

Michael T. Flynn

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I am convening the African Leaders Forum on Disability in partnership with Special Olympics so that a marginalized population long unrecognized does not remain in the shadows. I consider this a critical, moral and practical challenge.

Joyce Banda

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I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

Don Henley

WomenFocusMenPoliticsReligion

I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.

Colin Wilson

HardAlwaysOverPrettyBeenBooks

Most of black America is in housing projects, without jobs, living on welfare. And this is not the case in 'The Cosby Show,' because all the values in that household are strictly what I would call white American values.

August Wilson

BlackAmericanAmericaValuesLiving

All the good work in the world will not compensate for the damage that a single facet of the business, or a rogue individual, can do. Insider trading, environmental damage, human-rights violations, and opportunistic practices erode trust and result in net negative impact.

Punit Renjen

WorkGoodBusinessTrustWorld

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