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Wednesday October 22, 2003

panacea \pan-uh-SEE-uh\, noun:
A remedy for all diseases, problems, or evils; a universal medicine; a cure-all.

He considered education "the great panacea" and insisted that access to knowledge was the key to all social progress.
-- Diane Ravitch, Left Back

I do not want to overstate the benefits of dialogue. Though I believe it sometimes has almost magical properties, it is not a panacea for all the problems that ail us.
-- Daniel Yankelovich, The Magic of Dialogue

Technology had become a panacea for the great economic, social, and political challenges facing the nation as it embarked on the path of modernization.
-- Paul R. Josephson, Red Atom

Panacea derives from Greek panakeia, from panakes, "all-healing," from pan-, "all" + akos, "cure."

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