Patch Adams
Patch Adams
Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adamsis an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author. He founded the Gesundheit! Institute in 1971. Each year he organizes a group of volunteers from around the world to travel to various countries where they dress as clowns in an effort to bring humor to orphans, patients, and other people...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 May 1945
CountryUnited States of America
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They had every reason to be sad and angry, yet people were instantly friendly, engaging and giving.
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All the messages our kids are getting is money-taking, not giving.
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We have to end the capitalist system. We have to make love our value. You are rich when you love and you are rich when you are giving away your time and what you have to help other people.
justice giving care
Please give your life to peace, justice and care.
giving feel-good feels
I like giving. Doing something for somebody else feels good.
giving grows contact
The value of friendship and just deep human contact grows out of giving.
giving community society
We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.
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The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free.
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And yet the influence of the adult world--this is the pain paradigm shouting -- serious is what you want to be taken,
brilliant people rules
You have a brilliant mind, and like many brilliant people you don't necessarily think the rules apply,
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We love our patients and our patients love us. You don't sue someone you love.
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It's humiliating that a person who kicks a ball makes more money than a school teacher.
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They want to have a fabulous listener, they want sweet tenderness and no sense that you are in a hurry,
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I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.