Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite … - Eric Davis

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The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. . . . Only that which has been organized into our disposition so as to enable us to adapt the environment to our needs and adapt our aims and desires to the situation in which we live is really knowledge.

Eric Davis

Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.

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