"We want to be on the winning team,……" — Paul Farmer
"We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat."
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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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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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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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I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.
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We will never-and I mean never-turn our backs on our employees.
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