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“Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.”

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“Preferring steady progress, slow and imperfect, is a good philosophy for the defeated.”

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Source: Anopheles Gambiae in Brazil, 1930 to 1940

“It’s not that easy living with malaria. The reality of the high annual death toll should make that very obvious.”

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“Many ‘experts’ don’t possess the imagination or vision or any of the logistical expertise required to achieve malaria eradication. Their opinions shouldn’t be allowed to hold back men and women who do possess these qualities from achieving the ‘impossible.”

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“I am sorry for you tonight, Mr. President. You are facing one of the greatest decisions of your career. Upon what you decide depends on whether or not you are going to get your canal. If you fall back upon the old methods of sanitation you will fail, just as the French failed. If you back up Dr. Gorgas and his ideas, and you let him make his campaign against mosquitoes, then you get your canal. I can only give you my advice; you must decide for yourself. There is only one way of controlling yellow fever and malaria, and that is the eradication of the mosquitoes. But it is your canal; you must do the choosing and you must choose tonight whether you are going to build that canal.”

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Source: Doctor William Crawford Gorgas Of Alabama And The Panama Canal

“Some asshole tried to cure malaria by gene-editing the plasmodium parasite that causes it. Worked for most strains, but a hardy, drug-resistant plasmodium emerged that just kills the few people who get it. So, prevalence is down but mortality is up. Way up.”

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Source: Rosewater / The Rosewater Insurrection

“Some people make the world brighter with their presence, and their light continues to shine within us.”

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“I was scared. Not of the writing – but of remembering. Of telling the truth about the moments I was still scared to speak about out loud. The drugs. The betrayal. The jail cell. The blood on the sheets. The men who hit me. The ones I went back to anyway. The shame. The silence. But I knew this was the right time. Because I finally didn’t care about being judged. I cared about being real. That was the day I realized – telling my story wasn’t about fixing the past. It was about finally letting it go.”

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“Nature is always talking to you, smiling to you, and singing to you. To understand, you just have to be open to listen with your heart and soul.”

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“Listen, not with your ears, with your heart.”

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“I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.”

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