Mechai Viravaidya quotes
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“We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree”
-- Mechai ViravaidyaSource : Interview with Dan Rivers, www.cnn.com. July 23, 2007.
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“People like to have fun and they like to laugh. And when you laugh, it's much easier to convince people and they laugh with you, rather than being angry. And I think laughter's always nice and I've always liked it.”
-- Mechai ViravaidyaSource : Source: edition.cnn.com
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“People were having sex before I was born. My parents had sex before I was born, nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to stop sex. I'm trying to stop people from dying from sex.”
-- Mechai ViravaidyaSource : Source: edition.cnn.com
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“I left the government because I saw the only way to get family planning moving, was to do it outside the government. I was never disillusioned with government.”
-- Mechai ViravaidyaSource : Source: edition.cnn.com
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“The condom has saved so many lives and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.”
-- Mechai ViravaidyaSource : Source: edition.cnn.com
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“AIDS is still around. Therefore, you have to practice safe sex.”
-- Mechai ViravaidyaSource : Source: edition.cnn.com
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“What could I do with $1 million? What can I do with the satisfaction that I perhaps today helped somebody to have a better life. That's real reward. The million dollars, nothing.”
-- Mechai ViravaidyaSource : Source: edition.cnn.com
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“We're the ones causing global warming. In fact, what we ought to be saying is population growth is a major cause of it, so I hope to have a T-shirt out very, very soon: Stop global warming, use condoms.”
-- Mechai ViravaidyaSource : Source: edition.cnn.com
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Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.99, Image Continuum Press
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“What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.”
Source : "The Fifth Blade" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2009.
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Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.151, Baker Books
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