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Man of old who could not fight disease and succumbed in multitudes to yellow fever or any other plague could not lay claim to dignity. Only the man who builds hospitals, discovers therapeutic techniques, and saves lives is blessed with dignity.

— Joseph B. Soloveitchik The Lonely Man of Faith, p. 16 (1965)

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