“I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.” ThinkingWayTodayPainLastsCenturyChangedAmountTreatsPatientCancerEnormousReliefProvidingPhysiciansPsychicsSolacePain ReliefTreating Patients Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee
“Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us - that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt themselves well, perhaps better than we do, to changing world conditions - they enlarge their domain, shift their hold on our nerves, and, dispossessed of one habitat, set up house in another. The universal battiness of our century looks like providing them with a propitious climate.” WorldWellsLooksMayWholeSeemsHouseFantasyConditionsCenturyUniversalClimateGhostFancyNervesProvidingDomainHabitat Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“What's interesting to me is that in the late twentieth century it seems that there's scarcely a part of the world that doesn't have some capitalist return that can be realized providing that this area's made accessible and resources can be extracted from it.” WorldMadeSeemsInterestingCenturyReturnLateResourcesAreasCapitalistProvidingTwentieth Century Author:James C. Scott
“Traditions cannot themselves, simply with their own powers, do what needs to be done. These earlier experiences and accomplishments were dealing with other issues, providing guidance for different worlds than the world of the early twenty-first century.” WorldNeedsFirstsDifferentDoneIssuesCenturyTraditionTwentiesGuidanceAccomplishmentProvidingDifferent Worlds Author:Thomas Berry