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Everyone should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud.

Linus Pauling

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Linus Pauling
Age: 93 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 28
Died: 1994
Died: August 19
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Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.
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Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
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