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“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.” – Orson Welles
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This is the best piece of news I’ve seen in a year.
Gorbunova and Andrei Seluanov, professors of biology at the University of Rochester, and funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Ellison Medical Foundation, have found a gene present in naked mole rats that they believe prevents the rodents from ever getting cancer. [...]

These words were written on the bulletin board in the lab room where I got my chemotherapy. Every time I would sit down to give blood, I would read them. It’s funny, at the time I thought they were empty words with no real meaning… a false hope, if you will. I saw my situation [...]

Think of stepping on the shore and finding it heaven, of touching a hand and finding it God’s, of breathing new air and finding it celestial, of waking up in glory and finding it home.

I grabbed this poll off of MSN’s website the other day. I wanted to save it because it gave me a spark of hope for the future: