"Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It……" — Larry Brilliant
"Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history."
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15 Quotes by Larry Brilliant
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Google's a strange place. When I met Eric Schmidt, he said, "If you are kind to everybody, then you will…
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One percent of the equity, 1 percent of the profits, and 1 percent of the people go into Google.org. The…
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If you don't put the spiritual and religious dimension into our political conversation, you won't be asking the really big…
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The defining character of Steve Jobs isn't his genius, it isn't his talent, it isn't his success. It's his love.…
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This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens…
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The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel…
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In 1980 we declared the globe free of smallpox. It was the largest campaign in United Nations history until the…
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I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost…
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Life didn't just happen to them. They experienced life at a deeper level than I had ever experienced it. I…
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If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
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Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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