Fred Hollows quotes
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“I believe that the basic attribute of mankind is to look after each other”
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“Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the prime minster or the king.”
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“To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities.”
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“I studied medicine so I could help others - set a leg or whatever - and it's given me a great deal of satisfaction.”
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“When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it.”
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“The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.”
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“I have been lucky in that I've been alive at times when the things that I wanted to do were capable of being done.”
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“You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that turn out to be wrong.”
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“Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts.”
-- Fred Hollows
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“Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.”
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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.133, Macmillan
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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.184, Macmillan
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Source : A. C. Grayling (2009). “Liberty in the Age of Terror: A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values”, Bloomsbury Publishing
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Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Original Bliss”, p.74, Random House
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“Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.”
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Source : "Mark Ronson's Scent Manifesto". Interview with Stelios Phili, www.gq.com. April 2, 2013.
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“Nature is the chart of God, mapping out all His attributes.”
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