Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.