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Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. Doctors treat diseases but they also treat people, and this precondition of their professional existence sometimes pulls them in two directions at once.
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No transformation in men's attitude to Nature — in their "common sense" — has been more profound than the change in perspective brought about by the discovery of the past. Rather than take this discovery for granted, it is almost preferable to exaggerate its significance.
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Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.
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June Goodfield
Born:
1927
(age 98)
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June Goodfield is a British historian, scientist, and writer of both fiction and non-fiction.
Known for:
The Fabric of the Heavens (1961)
Quest for the killers (1985)
A chance to live (1991)
Rotten at the Core (2001)
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