Illness Quotes
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Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.
Carlo Collodi
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We had a hung jury, ... and instead, he used (the holdout juror's) illness as an excuse to dismiss her from the jury.
Lew Wasserman
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I wanna never have birth and fail as a father. I would never want the illness that killed in my Nana
Vincenzo Luvineri Army of the Pharaohs
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The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.
Vladimir Lenin
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God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.
Muhammad Ali
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Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.
Susannah McCorkle
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Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.
Alice B. Toklas
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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
George Bernard Shaw
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I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.
Lewis H. Lapham
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Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!
Victor Hugo
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Man's destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not master the differential equations of thermodynamics or the biochemical cures of illness. They stay in thatched huts and die young.
E. O. Wilson
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As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.
Virginia Woolf
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In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.
Albert Camus
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Factions are a sign of illness in a party.
Ernest Mandel
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Mathematicians don't like it when they're associated with mental illness and sort of bristle when you say that they can't get along socially, that they're not good with people.
Ethan Canin
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In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.
Virginia Woolf
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All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.
Muhammad Ali
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How wonderful it would be if we humans with illnesses could simply go dormant while the scientific world went about its snail-paced research, and wake only when new, safe medical treatments were available.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death
Walter Willett
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The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind has remained intact and that its tissues have not been damaged by trauma or inflammation. But destructive influences which can be compared to causes of illness like these are never lacking in the history of a city, even if it has had a less chequered past than Rome, and even if, like London, it has hardly ever suffered from the visitations of an enemy.
Sigmund Freud
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We've all got a terminal illness. It's called life.
Benedict Groeschel
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Most cancers are the result of repeatedly suppressing mild symptoms of illness such as a cold, pain, infection, or headache and treating them as if they were real diseases.
Andreas Moritz