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As recently as 1890, more people in the U.S. died of tuberculosis each year than died of heart disease and cancer COMBINED.

The idea of heart disease and cancer being leading causes of death is younger than Dr Pepper or Maxwell House.

Scientific discovery has utterly transformed the world in which we live, increasing life expectancy and alleviating suffering. It's the greatest success in human history. Failing to share these innovations with all humans is the greatest failure in human history.

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“The consolation of this world is that there are no continuous sufferings. A pain disappears and a joy is reborn.”

— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1942-1951

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An Interview with Hanif Abdurraqib

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“My brother used to ask the birds to forgive him; that sounds senseless, but it is right; for all is like an ocean, all things flow and touch each other; a disturbance in one place is felt at the other end of the world…”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov.