What Is the True Measure of Greatness?
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While you're pondering that, ponder this: How do you then compare that author's social value to that of a great philanthropist who smoothed society's edges for its less fortunate? Which one's greater -- Kathleen Richardson, who gave us her money, or Pulitzer Prize winner Carol Shields, who gave us her mind and nurtured ours?
"Of course, it's important to save lives and make medical discoveries," said [Arthur Schafer], "(but) I'd personally still look more for someone who made us a more tolerant society, someone who made us a more just society. A more fair society. Someone who created cohesiveness in the community.""J.S. Woodsworth and Stanley Knowles and, of course, Tommy Douglas," says Schafer. "And not just because medicare saved lives, because it definitely saved lives. But medicare also defined who we are as a society."See the full content of this document
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What Is the True Measure of Greatness?
Some have saved lives, others define who we are
By Paul WiecekHow do you value the contribution of a great author to a society?And while you're pondering that, ponder this: How do you then compare that author's social value to that of a great philant...See the full content of this document
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