Terminal Disease Quotes

• There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

  Nelson Mandela

  Fear, Equality, Waking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Enjoy Life, Challenges

  "Who Is Nelson Mandela? A Reader's Digest Exclusive Interview". Interview with Caitlin O'Connell, www.rd.com. 2005.

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• In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

  Noam Chomsky

  Freedom, Hero, Democracies Have

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• When you're dying, you're liberated to do what you want to do. You give yourself permission. I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

  Laura Linney

  Unique, Thinking, Giving

  "Laura Linney Interview THE BIG C". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 16, 2010.

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• Drug-use is a terminal disease.

  Virgil Miller Newton

  Drug Use, Disease, Terminal

  "Gone Way Down: Teenage Drug-Use is a Disease". American Studies Press, Tampa, Florida, 1981.

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• I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.

  Steve Gleason

  Two, Average, Talking

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• Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Funny, Humor, Perspective

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• Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.

  Anne Enright

  Book, Self, Dying

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Anne Enright, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.

  John Cleese

  Disease, Life Is, Sexually

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• Now we have two choices in life: have sex with the same person forever or risk a terminal disease. Either way, your life is over.

  Andy Kindler

  Sex, Two, Choices

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