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“I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.”

Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Siddhartha Mukherjee

Siddhartha Mukherjee is a distinguished physician and oncologist, born in 1970. He has made substantial contributions to cancer research and has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer'. more

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