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When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.


Matthew Desmond

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DESMOND TUTU It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
DESMOND TUTU It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
DESMOND TUTU One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole called...
DESMOND DEKKER Musicians get tense at big gigs. Some you can't talk to before the concert; some you can't t...
RICHARD DESMOND It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful action...
DESMOND TUTU We learn from history that we don't learn from history!
DESMOND TUTU Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundat...
DESMOND TUTU Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
DESMOND MORRIS We are definitely looking at it, like we participated in the earlier bond sale by Indonesia. There i...
DESMOND SOON There are 193 species of monkeys and apes, 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a nak...
DESMOND MORRIS This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives ...
DESMOND MORRIS Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death
DESMOND MORRIS Life will be the death of us.
EMILY DESMOND In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
DESMOND TUTU We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and ...
PAUL DESMOND Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
PAUL DESMOND I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
PAUL DESMOND I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted it to sound like a dry martini.
PAUL DESMOND I felt a responsibility to all other newsletter publishers.
PAUL DESMOND Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
DESMOND TUTU Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
DESMOND TUTU I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated road...
DESMOND TUTU God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him...
DESMOND TUTU Rural experiences are a key part of the therapy people need as an urban escape. They want to take th...
DESMOND JOLLY