"People call me a saint and I think,……" — Paul Farmer
"People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be."
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56 Quotes by Paul Farmer
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lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should…
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...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.
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I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those…
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Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.
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At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges…
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I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.
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I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.
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I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused…
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The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when…
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The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
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What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.
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In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries…
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