Eugene Rivers quotes
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“The great thing about serving the poor is that there is no competition.”
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“Funding for faith-based charities should] be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our religion can produce the results, then we plead guilty.”
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“Let me be very blunt: the heterosexual transmission of AIDS is, in Africa, a function of truly pathological promiscuity. So this is really a violence issue - not the same violence we deal with in Boston, where teenagers stab and shoot each other, but the violence of African men who are killing themselves, and killing African women and children, with pathological promiscuity.”
-- Eugene RiversSource : "Silence is Death". Interview with Eva Thorne, bostonreview.net. April/May 1999.
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“And we can't discharge that moral responsibility by passing out contraceptives. Contraceptives have been circulating all over Uganda, and it is not clear how many people are using the things. The best contraceptive in this case is abstinence.”
-- Eugene RiversSource : "Silence is Death". Interview with Eva Thorne, bostonreview.net. April/May 1999.
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Source : "The Doctrine of Chances: Or, A Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play".
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“During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk”
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“There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.”
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Source : Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.62, Macmillan
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“The great thing about serving the poor is that there is no competition.”
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“You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.”
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