Plato Quotes
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler
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I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
Kajol
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In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.
Hans Fischer
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Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham Cowley
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What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.
Jack Kevorkian
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
W. H. Auden
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Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
Iris DeMent
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
R. D. Laing
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To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
Saint Ignatius
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I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.
Gail Devers -
Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.
Barbara G. Walker
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Grief causes suffering and disease.
Daniel D. Palmer
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I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.
Cam Newton
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The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
Harold Warner
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There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.
Valerie Plame
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Being an only child is a disease in itself.
G. Stanley Hall
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Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
R. C. Sproul
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The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
R. C. Sproul
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Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.
William Penn
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Hard labor and the passing of the years had contorted and hardened his limbs to queer, crooked shapes, but he gave no impression of deformity, as Nat did. So of the earth was he that he looked more like a tree than a man, one of those tough old pine trees that nothing in the way of weather except a thunderbolt will ever get the better of.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.
Plato
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Our grandfathers lived in a world of largely self-sufficient, inward-looking national economies - but our great-great grandfathers lived, as we do, in a world of large-scale international trade and investment, a world destroyed by nationalism.
Paul Krugman
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Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.
Plato