"He is one of those wise philanthropists who,……" — Douglas William Jerrold

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• We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves… — David Attenborough
• People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly… — David Attenborough
• Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while… — James Buchan
• The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and… — James Buchan
• We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out… — Leonard Cohen
• I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
• But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will… — Hans Zinsser
• We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the… — Terence McKenna
• Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they… — Cornel West
• The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen… — William Hazlitt
• I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine… — Mark Twain
• The past year's natural disasters have highlighted the invaluable contributions of volunteers in our communities. They have volunteered their time,… — Kofi Annan

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