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Thomas Pogge Quotes

The cost of research, development and testing of a new drug is vastly greater than the cost of each dose produced. How should we pay for new medicines? Innovators should be rewarded according to the impact of their medicine, and people should contribute to these rewards according to their ability to pay.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: german
Birth: 1953

Topics

People Research Medicine Impact New

I'm a small-town boy who comes from a traditional family on a tiny island called Belitung. I may not know where I'm going, but I'll always know where to come home to.

Family Home Know Island Boy Always

I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.

Family Powerful Go Connected Right

When I watch a film, I watch it as an audience instead of thinking as an actor or an intellectual. I see whether it made me laugh, get involved or shocked me at certain points. Something has to stir inside me.

Me Thinking Laugh Intellectual Actor

Speaker Boehner has said many times that the House of Representatives is the closest institution to the people, and he recognizes that by empowering the members to have direct input into the process.

People Process House Said He Direct

The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived.

Faith Past People Think Lived Left

The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories... Poor people didn't decide to use 'contract employees' because they cost less and don't get any benefits.

People Employees Powerful Down Poor

I walked across Tuscany from Siena to Rome, which was a lovely way to see the landscape. It was sunny but not too hot, and we made detours to look at treasures - churches, paintings, little hill villages. The first couple of days, you feel your knees are turning to jelly. But, at the end, you feel very limber. I hope I can always do it.

Hope End Feel Landscape You Look

It's one of those things: I'm never gonna get over not fighting, I don't think, but I'm content with my decision to retire.

Decision Think Fighting Never Over

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

William Whewell

Experience Mind Ideas Constitution

It's not that acting was something I'd always wanted to do. I had no formal training; I'd never really imagined I'd be an actress. Business was something that had always been in my mind, but when I got into acting, I learned everything on set, and for me at that point, I wanted to excel at what I did.

Business Training Mind Me Acting

Most Hungarians know what it was to live in a dictatorship; some are old enough to have known both fascism and communism. No one wants to go back to that.

Live Communism Enough Back Go Know

I was the Richard Gere non-lookalike in Illinois.

Illinois Richard

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