Miriam Toews Quotes
I wondered if it was possible to donate my body to science before I was actually dead. I wondered if a disease were to be named after me what the symptoms would be.
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In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.
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I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.
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Being an only child is a disease in itself.
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Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?
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I've met many young women who are HIV positive and courageously fighting the disease. Their determination to live a full life and see their children live in a better world is deeply inspiring to me.
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I don't like Heather Graham. She did an interview and said, 'I didn't want to kiss Corey; I didn't want to catch his mononucleosis. He had a kissing disease.'
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Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there's more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important.
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After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.
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In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
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Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
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Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.
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Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.
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I smoke as much as I want and chew tobacco a good deal of the time. I don't pay any attention to the rules for keeping in physical condition. I think they are a lot of bunk. The less you worry about the effect of tea and coffee on the lining of your stomach, the longer you will live, and the happier you will be.
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Do thine own work, and know thyself.
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However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its own uniqueness.
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I wondered if it was possible to donate my body to science before I was actually dead. I wondered if a disease were to be named after me what the symptoms would be.
