People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can't impact you as a person. It's not just diseases. Economists are now beginning to say if we are going to have good markets in Africa, we're going to have to have healthy people in Africa.


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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Glendower:I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur:Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by...
WILLIAM PENN
A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with t...
WILLIAM PENN
For we put the power in the people.
WILLIAM PENN
They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
WILLIAM PENN
I return you many thanks for the honour you have done me; but Europe is not to be saved by any singl...
WILLIAM PITT
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. Julius Caesar
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being ve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man.
He that lives in Love lives in God, say...
WILLIAM PENN
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you h...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY
He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good ...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY
No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a might...
WILLIAM STYRON
I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the...
WILLIAM STYRON
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain ...
WILLIAM STYRON