Disease Quotes
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Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.
James Goldsmith
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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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But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.
William Bradford
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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.
Lao Tzu
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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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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
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The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.
Plutarch
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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
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I think it means that we'll be able to track down the actual causes of disease, ... Most folks don't realize we don't know the cause of asthma, of heart disease, of diabetes or hypertension.
Eric Lander
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Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
Heraclitus
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How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.
Alice Tisdale Hobart
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The primary cause of disease is in us, always in us.
Antoine Bechamp
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The only disease the alcoholics have is the disease of weakness and selfishness.
Cathy Lamb
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I'm obviously a typeomaniac, which is an incurable if not mortal disease. I can't explain it. I just love, I just like looking at type. I just get a total kick out of it: they are my friends. Other people look at bottles of wine or whatever, or, you know, girls' bottoms. I get kicks out of looking at type. It's a little worrying, I admit, but it's a very nerdish thing to do.
Erik Spiekermann
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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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We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety.
Joshua L. Liebman
