I left Cameroon when I was 13 years old, and I've lived more in Europe than Africa.
I'm not against T.V. advertising for campaigns, but we need to emphasize field campaigning much more than we do.
As Americans, we have traditionally been the optimists sporting the 'can-do' attitude. But when it comes to addressing climate adaptation and resiliency, we seem to be more 'can't do' than 'can-do.'
It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies.
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
There's so many more failures than successes for actors. It's like a phobia, fear of cancellation.
There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
More than 90% of cancers are curable at stage one - look for them, look for them, look for them.
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Slander is worse than cannibalism.
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions while renters get no deduction at all.
A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.
From 1945 to 1974, the Western world - including America - was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.
You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.
It's a really big deal to do a spacewalk. It's much riskier than staying indoors. It's complex. It uses up a lot of the precious resources onboard. It uses up oxygen. It uses up carbon dioxide scrubbers.
Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
