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 wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
Oliver North
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Some things are just universal. Like the known scientific fact that the colder and wetter you are, the better bacon smells frying.
Elizabeth Bear
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Most of India's 300 odd news channels are making losses and are dependent on dubious cross holding, black money and dodgy private equity investors, both foreign and Indian.
Mohammad Hamid Ansari
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I keep like simple thing in my head, so obviously is working. Then it's luck. To be honest, look at set point. I hit one of the worst drop shots I ever hit and he hit a frame It's pure luck, you know, to haven't drop a set. So you need to have it sometime, and I hope I will have more.
Gael Monfils
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A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Despair often breeds disease.
Sophocles