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Association Quote by Rene Dubos

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“With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time.”

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... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have…

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Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

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...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

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Each human being is unique, unprecedented, unrepeatable.

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It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to…

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Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his…

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The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies…

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Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the…

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The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep…

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One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.

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