Disease Quotes
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The only disease the alcoholics have is the disease of weakness and selfishness.
Cathy Lamb -
Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if any two of these joined, then they get the victory; for, Ne Hercules quidem contra duos [Not even Hercules himself is a match for two]. If the physician and the patient join, then down goes the disease; for then the patient recovers: if the physician and the disease join, that is a strong disease; and the physician mistaking the cure, then down goes the patient: if the patient and the disease join, then down goes the physician; for he is discredited.
Francis Bacon
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Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.
Francis Bacon -
Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.
William S. Burroughs -
Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases.
Henry Winkler -
When do you think people die? When they're shot through the heart with a pistol? ...No. When they have an uncurable disease? ...No. When they drink soup made from a poisonous mushroom? No! When they are forgotten! Even if I die, my dream will come true. The hearts of the people will be cured..!
Eiichiro Oda -
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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Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
Sophocles -
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 -
Of course, there are diseases of which people die.
Serge Lang -
But solving problems of disease is not the same thing as creating health and happiness. (...) Health and happiness are the expression of the manner in which the individual responds and adapts to the challenges that he meets in everyday life.
Rene Dubos -
We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I have a particular passion and focus on Alzheimer's and diseases of dementia. There's just so much scientifically that we don't know, and we can know.
Miles D. White
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I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.
Malachy McCourt -
Consciousness is a disease.
Miguel de Unamuno -
All I'm trying to do is wipe out heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.
Nathan Pritikin -
Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
Heraclitus -
I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.
Norman Vincent Peale -
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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Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell
Emily Dickinson -
All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
Mahatma Gandhi -
To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
Lao Tzu -
War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. AIDS is not an efficient killer because it is too slow. My favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. "We've got airborne diseases with 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that. "You know, the bird flu's good, too. For everyone who survives, he will have to bury nine.
Eric Pianka