Coretta Scott King

While not a panacea for the nation's illegal immigration problems, employer sanctions are one necessary means of stopping the exploitation of vulnerable workers and the undercutting of American jobs and living standards.

American Activist

Adam Grant

Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.

American Author

Ernest Hemingway

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

American Novelist

Mitch Kapor

When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea. It attracts very high amounts of money; it raises expectations, and those expectations aren't met.

American Businessman

David D. Burns

Although no one treatment will ever be a panacea, research studies indicate that cognitive therapy can be helpful for a variety of disorders in addition to depression.

Writer

Herman Daly

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

American Economist

Pernell Roberts

Materialism isn't the panacea that so many people think it is.

American Actor

Tom Peters

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

Foster Friess

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

Ben Bernanke

American Public Servant

Often used figuratively to suggest an overly optimistic or naive solution.

Figurative Nuance

In modern times, 'panacea' is rarely meant literally but instead indicates a general fix.

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Can be used sarcastically to imply that something is not actually a comprehensive solution.

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Used historically to mean an actual medical cure-all, now largely metaphorical or archaic.

Historical Context

Carries connotations of alchemy and the unattainable; symbolizes ultimate healing.

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Most familiar within contexts relating to medieval or ancient quest narratives.

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 can decode the signals that our bodies send out when we're trying to be deceptive and these technologies are going to be marketed all of us as panaceas for deceit and they will prove incredibly useful someday but you got to ask yourself in the meantime who do you want on your side of the meeting someone who's trained in getting to the truth or

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 is some kind of a guaranteed income or universal basic income. Now, basic income is becoming a very important idea. It's getting a lot of traction and attention, there are a lot of important pilot projects and experiments going on throughout the world. My own view is that a basic income is not a panacea;

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 is to build net-zero single-family homes. In sunny climates in particular, solar panels work very, very well, because it's a lot of roof area, relative to very few occupants. But these things, they're hardly a panacea -- in part because they're very expensive to build,

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 We know, for example, that we now have specialized eye trackers and infrared brain scans, MRI's that can decode the signals that our bodies send out when we're trying to be deceptive. And these technologies are going to be marketed to all of us as panaceas for deceit,

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 panacea to any of the challenges of producing food in the world and I think some of the initiatives in smallholders and making sure we go back to some of the principles that worked really effectively in agriculture over many centuries are really important as well

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 You should look at, what was your goal? How are you trying to uplift nutrition and survival and literacy so these countries can take care of themselves, and say wow, this is going well, and be smarter. We can spend aid smarter. It is not all a panacea.

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 Indeed, I'm a university professor. There are clear intrinsic values to education, along with a public responsibility to expose everyone to a high-quality education, from grade school all the way through college. But education is not the panacea.

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 and it's been moving up. India, the largest democracy in the world, 94 and dropping. For the hundred or so countries that are ranked below China, more than half of them are electoral democracies. So if election is the panacea for corruption,

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 Don't get me wrong -- it's not a panacea. The question is Would this be perfect? Of course not. People are fallibly human, and distorting influences will continue to exist. The question Would it be better?

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 maintaining sewers it's inspiring but it's not a panacea this solution must be one of many built into modern sanitation networks and those networks must be built by

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