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Life demands for its completion and fulfilment a balance between joy and sorrow. But because suffering is positively disagreeable, people naturally prefer not to ponder how much fear and sorrow fall to the lot of man. So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled
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Homsy, C.A. (1995). R&D and Manufacturing of Biomaterials and Implants in the Socio-Political Context. In: Kossowsky, R., Kossovsky, N. (eds) Advances in Materials Science and Implant Orthopedic Surgery. NATO ASI Series, vol 294. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0157-8_7
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