Sophocles Quotes
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The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.
Victor LaValle
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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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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
Mahalia Jackson
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What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.
Jack Kevorkian
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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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I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.
Gail Devers -
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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For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.
Samantha Power
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Being an only child is a disease in itself.
G. Stanley Hall
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All disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first 'heal the soul'.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?
Rachel Caine
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Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.
Andrew Solomon
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The path to joy leads through despair.
Alexander Lowen
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To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on.
Banana Yoshimoto
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
Oscar Wilde
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Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
Benjamin Banneker
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My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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telling the truth about children's lives is radical.
Lucille Clifton
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For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything chosen about them.
Albert Einstein
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How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.
Gerald Scarfe
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Despair often breeds disease.
Sophocles