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René Dubos, the American microbiologist and author of Mirage of Health, who coined the phrase ‘Think globally, act locally’, reminded us that ‘at some unpredictable time, and in some unforeseeable manner, nature will strike back’.
“Most of us cherish the notion of free choice, but our choices are constrained by the conditions in which we are born, grow, live, work and age.”
― The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
― The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
“These so-called bleak times are necessary to go through in order to get to a much, much better place.”
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“You cannot fell a hill
From force of will
Only time.
You cannot dissipate
Hate with righteous hate
Only love.
Only time, only love,
Only time and love.”
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From force of will
Only time.
You cannot dissipate
Hate with righteous hate
Only love.
Only time, only love,
Only time and love.”
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“But people’s ability to take personal responsibility is shaped by their circumstances. People cannot take responsibility if they cannot control what happens to them.”
― The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
― The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
“In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments—which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.”
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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