Quotes On Polio Eradication

#1. I really do think cancer will largely be a solved problem. I think most of the infectious diseases like malaria - our foundation is very involved - once we're finishing polio eradication, then starting up this malaria eradication, and getting that done as fast as we can.

Bill Gates

#2. If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there.

Bill Gates

#3. Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Estee Lauder

#4. We just hide from the people we love. Sad, isn't it?

C.C. Hunter

#5. Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

Bill Gates

#6. She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

Rebecca West

#7. We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

Peter Agre

#8. Visigothic kings

Peter Tyler

#9. I live in a town that's two and a half hours from the border. I know people who have lived in San Antonio for generations, sometimes seven generations, their families are from there, and they are of Mexican descent, and they've never gone farther than the border.

Sandra Cisneros

#10. The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.

George Herbert

#11. I definitely see myself as a leader. One of the ways I've been lucky enough to lead and likely to continue to lead is just my actions and the way that I approach the game and working hard and being a player that steps up in big-time situations when plays need to be made.

Ndamukong Suh

#12. Culture is sustained in our synapses ... It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

Nicholas Carr

#13. I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

Donald Cargill

#14. We are one. Man, horse, lance, we are one beast of blood and wood and iron.

George R R Martin

#15. All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#16. The most meaningful prayer is kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#17. I believe in the joyous power of an unscheduled dance break.

Sophia Bush

#18. There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really top down solutions that require government-to-government support and aid.

Jacqueline Novogratz