Disease Quotes
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The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.
Rene Dubos
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You probably think Stephen Hawking is in that wheelchair because of a motor neuron disease. But if you got as much barely-legal student poontang as The Hawkster, you'd be in a wheelchair too.
Scott Adams
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Of course, there are diseases of which people die.
Serge Lang
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The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
William Penn
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People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn't get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get.
Gertrude B. Elion
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Medicine deals with the states of health and disease in the human body. It is a truism of philosophy that a complete knowledge of a thing can only be obtained by elucidating its causes and antecedents, provided, of course, such causes exist. In medicine it is, therefore, necessary that causes of both health and disease should be determined.
Avicenna
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Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year.
Walter Willett
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I'm not classically pretty; I've always been too heavy; I've had thyroid disease and it's very hard for me to lose weight - but I've always had men pursue me. I've always had that 'it' thing. God knows why. Maybe it's pheromones, I don't know.
Erica Jong
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When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
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There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.
Malachy McCourt
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Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.
Anthony Kiedis
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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I would love to bring to light, besides just educating about Lyme in general, that it's a very complicated disease and it's very, very scary for the people who are dealing with it because your insides don't match your outsides. That can be very infuriating because people would say, "You look great." And you're like, I can't even carry on a conversation with you right now.
Ally Hilfiger
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I studied mind-cure, or metaphysical healing, which strikes at the root of disease; I went into hypnotism, mesmerism, and phreno-magnetism, and the od force-I don't suppose you know about the od which Reichenbach discovered.
Edward Eggleston
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I love it [a career as an actor] to bits, but it's highly bizarre, especially when you're playing a psychopathic rapist with various diseases.
David Oakes
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To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
Lao Tzu
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Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.
Chris Prentiss
