We are torn about helping HIV-positive people when the general population is also starving.
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LARRY PARHAM The message this sends I think is when you are HIV-positive you have a positive duty to disclose tha...
ANDREW MACDONALD If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
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IRIS KREBBER More and more girls are standing at the road side, many of them not even thirteen of age.
IRIS KREBBER We usually think about it in terms of helping seniors reach their destinations, but we are also help...
COLLEEN KONSTANZER I'm sure there are higher-paying jobs, but it's not about the pay, it's about helping the people. He...
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JOAN GANZ COONEY We greatly support the idea of helping people with diabetes better manage their disease. We also are...
RICHARD KAHN I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many peopl...
BRUCE DAVISON The epidemic is spreading from the most at-risk population to the general population as infections t...
CHEN JIE There is not a scintilla of evidence to suggest my client is HIV positive.
DAVID NAGLE The risk to the general population is very low.
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SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Be positive in every phase of life, except HIV.
LILY CHATTERJEE Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and wil...
VIVEK WADHWA Now is the time to save lives and protect the population, and we are working on that. Afterward, we ...
VICENTE FOX The decision sends a message that in respect to people who are infected with the HIV virus, that it ...
ANDREW MACDONALD I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's...
LEO TOLSTOY When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to th...
NATE MENDEL The whole nation is helping and the army is helping, and I think we are feeling very happy with ours...
GEN MUSHARRAF The two sides reached an accord to pay $12m for each of the 426 HIV infected children and 20 mothers...
DRISS LAGHA The allegation is that he had unprotected sexual relations with the girl, knowing he was HIV-positiv...
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EMMANUEL SOUPRE The Red Cross called us, and we came, ... We are helping the Red Cross and helping the people.
JAMES FERGUSON In general, if we leave out the atheistic fraction of world population that possesses no notable opt...
ABHIJIT NASKAR People have gone to sleep on HIV. We know more about mad cow disease in England or the bird flu.
PERNESSA SEELE We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive em...
BRENé BROWN The only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
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THOMAS FRIEDMAN Rather than getting information about the incidence or prevalence of HIV, what it really produces is...
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ELLIOT COWAN The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
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DAVID RODGERS It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooke...
MIKE DEWINE When you've got a really good (teacher or) case manager, the kids learn to trust them, to really lov...
DENNIS MCBRIDE We had about 20 people who were helping clean it up.
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LARRY PAGE We are broadcasting experts, but we are not HIV experts.
STEPHEN KING You can live a long life with HIV. You can access help, if it's positive.
BASHA CLOSIC The responses have been positive. When people talk about Janet, they talk about her with reverence.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The polit...
ELTON JOHN What fraternities and sororities are about is to be there to give people that helping hand, especial...
ALEXANDREENA DIXON We've had a lot of people from Jackson General up here helping us move files, move things.
KARON HARRISON One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic propor...
PHILIP EMEAGWALI Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl...
ANGIE KARAN This isn't about comparing how sick we are: it is about helping each other do the best we can with w...
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DAVID MULOVHEDZI We are not about creating a Forrest dynasty, we're about helping others.
ANDREW FORREST people are pretty torn on where they stand.
SAMUEL BEST It's gotten to the point where the general population expects it.
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ANDILE BENTELE I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.
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IRIS APFEL You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy thi...
IRIS APFEL As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
IRIS CHANG Love generates, or rather reveals, something which may be called absolute charm. In the beloved noth...
IRIS MURDOCH The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more ...
IRIS MURDOCH Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ...
IRIS MURDOCH I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail, those...
IRIS MURDOCH Where you are,there I'll be.Make up your mind to it.You may not love me now bt you will.I'll see to ...
IRIS JOHANSEN People were worried; they thought we were going to go to nuclear war when there was a conflict with ...
IRIS WEINSHALL We find stuff all the time, but what's sort of eerie about this is that this is a bridge that thousa...
IRIS WEINSHALL