Bill Gates Quotes
With polio, we've gone several years with no polio in all of Africa, but now with this we're having to go and mop up in that whole region, so it's a bit of a setback for polio. So in parallel we have to go back and get rid of those cases.
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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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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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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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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There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.
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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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In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
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I've traveled to many countries in Africa, and to me, Benin felt the most hopeful.
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When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.
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I love Africa.
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In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.
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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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Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.
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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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Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.
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Economics is a narrative discipline, and explanations are easy to fit retrospectively. (page 257)
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As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.
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Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.
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With polio, we've gone several years with no polio in all of Africa, but now with this we're having to go and mop up in that whole region, so it's a bit of a setback for polio. So in parallel we have to go back and get rid of those cases.
