Bill Gates Quotes
Every three years, we have to go to the governments and say, okay, you know you're saving millions of lives and even though your budgets are tight, helping Africa avoid this disaster really is a priority.
Quotes to Explore
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Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
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Africa has no future.
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.
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We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
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The infrastructure we provide is the same in a remote town in Africa or New York or an archipelago in Sweden: we use the same system, and the chips inside the phone are the same.
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The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.
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I roll with bodyguards when I go back home to South Africa.
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
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Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
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Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
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I've traveled to many countries in Africa, and to me, Benin felt the most hopeful.
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I love Africa.
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As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
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Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history.
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I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.
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Last night I had a dream. When I got to Africa, I had one hell of a rumble. I had to beat Tarzan's behind first, for claiming to be King of the Jungle.
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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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The only way out of international dictatorship is to place international law above governments, which means that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.
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Electronic medical records are, in a lot of ways, I think the aspect of technology that is going to revolutionize the way we deliver care. And it's not just that we will be able to collect information, it's that everyone involved in the healthcare enterprise will be able to use that information more effectively.
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It doesn’t matter how strong or capable you are; if you don’t have a big heart, you will not succeed.
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Every three years, we have to go to the governments and say, okay, you know you're saving millions of lives and even though your budgets are tight, helping Africa avoid this disaster really is a priority.
