“Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.”

— John Hersey , book Hiroshima

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American journalist, novelist, professor 1914–1993

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