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.
Hans Fischer
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Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham Cowley
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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 -
I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.
Cam Newton
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Being an only child is a disease in itself.
G. Stanley Hall
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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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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.
Alicia Keys
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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.'
Corey Haim
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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.
Marianne Williamson
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After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.
Martha Gellhorn
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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.
Hippocrates
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
Hippocrates
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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.
Plato
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Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
Plato
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Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.
Plato
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Despair often breeds disease.
Sophocles
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The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I've been getting completely hammered and enjoying myself. I'm 24 and I know I'm not going to be able to do this s**t when I'm 50. Sometimes you've got to live.
Tyson Jay Ritter The All-American Rejects
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American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.
Simon Pegg
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I had to decide if I wanted to be a singer or an actor. I was always singing. I thought if I could be an actor, I could do all of it.
Harry Dean Stanton
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There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.
George Eliot
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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.
Miriam Toews