"Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease."

-- Siddhartha Mukherjee

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“What I want to express is a feeling-various emotions that I am experiencing at the time-whether it is anger or hope or anything else, and from different angles. I construct a collection and it takes concrete form. That's probably what appears conceptual to people because it never starts out with any specific historical or geographical reference. My point of departure is always abstract and multileveled.”
“We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.”
“The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.”
“We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said that a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views.”
“I was disappointed as a Hillary supporter. But the fact is, is that he won North Carolina and came very close to winning in Indiana after all of the Reverend Wright and after all of the negative attacks. And it seems to me that there were a lot of white Americans who said, "I'm still gonna vote for Obama because I like what he's saying."”

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“I am a bit different from the other sprinters because, I would say, I can run many different ways while the other guys they just came on and they can only run one way.”
“A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.”
“And I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddleâ€” And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret.”

Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.62, The Floating Press

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