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Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredi

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. – Rene Dubos, Mirage of Health, 1959

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We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place. – Rene Dubos, Medical Utopias, 1961

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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. – Chinese Proverb

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The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows. – Paul A. Samuelson, Newsweek, 12 June 1967

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