Cancer Quotes - Page 27

• I don't inhale because it gives you cancer, but I look so incredibly handsome with a cigarette that I can't not hold one.

  Woody Allen

  Giving, Smoking, Looks

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• I continue to be amazed by our bodies' ability for self-repair. ... Our bodies want to be healthy, if we would just let them. That's what these new research articles are showing: Even after years of beating yourself up with a horrible diet, your body can reverse the damage, open back up the arteries-even reverse the progression of some cancers. Amazing! So it's never too late to start exercising, never too late to stop smoking and never too late to start eating healthier.

  Michael Greger

  Exercise, Self, Years

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• There is no conclusive proof that nicotine's addictive... And the same thing with cigarettes causing emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Heart, Disease, Cigarette

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• You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It's a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all... That was like ignoring cancer.

  Octavia Butler

  Pride, Animal, Saws

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• But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.

  John Green

  Giving, Chance, Company

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.229, Penguin

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• A lot of people are listening and most people believe global warming is a problem and they'd like to see it addressed. But governments and the biggest companies in the world don't want to deal with it like they didn't want to deal with the fact that tobacco causes cancer.

  John H Richardson

  Believe, Government, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The worst of this ever growing cancer of Statism [ie big 'paternal' government - socialism, communism and fascism] is its moral effect. The country is rich enough to stand its frightful economic wastage for a long time yet, and still prosper, but it is already so poverty-stricken in its moral resources that the present drain will quickly run them out.

  Albert J. Nock

  Running, Country, Government

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• Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mother, Waiting, Priorities

  Alice Hoffman (2000). “Local Girls”, p.45, Penguin Group

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• The moment the doctor said he wanted to do a biopsy, in my heart I thought I'd probably got it. But I also know a lot of people who have also had prostate cancer, so I had a reasonably good idea what to expect.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Heart, Doctors, Ideas

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• The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,” the New York Times tech columnist once wrote. “Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease.

  Jaron Lanier

  New York, Robots, Upheaval

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• Theres no such thing as ageing gracefully. I dont meet people who want to get Alzheimers disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Elderly, People, Disease

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• You know, Mike Milken, the money that he has raised for cancer research has been remarkable.

  Joe Torre

  Research, Remarkable, Raised

  “Larry King Live”, nypost.com. February 1, 2009.

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• I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.

  Mary Lasker

  Heart, Way, Sin

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• Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.

  Eve Ensler

  Dream, Ambition, Vision

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• I eat like a horse; sometimes I think I must have cancer.

  Lee Radziwill

  Horse, Thinking, Sometimes

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• If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.

  Michel Onfray

  Philosophy, Suffering, Would Be

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• I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.

  Charles Jencks

  Thinking, Want, Patient

  "Maggie's Centres: can architecture cure cancer?" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.

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• Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And were trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Jobs, Differences, Work Out

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• In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Way, Microscopes, Arise

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• It would be really great if I discovered a cure for cancer, but it would only be a little bit less great if my neighbor did. So I am pretty happy when my neighbor becomes wealthier, better educated and more innovative. I feel the same about China and India.

  Alex Tabarrok

  India, Would Be, Littles

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• Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Wake Up, Stakes, Frail

  "Joni Eareckson Tada, Husband: Cancer 'Bruising of a Blessing' On Our Marriage". Interview with Stephanie Samuel, www.christianpost.com. May 15, 2013.

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• My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do?

  Andrew Lo

  Mother, Years, Lasts

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• My philosophy, don't let cancer ruin your life. You get up every day and use what you have and what time you have left.

  Paul Henderson

  Philosophy, Use, Ruins

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• By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don't catch colds, you don't get cancer, you don't get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?

  Joseph Pilates

  Exercise, Animal, Goes On

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• We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

  George Bernard Shaw

  God, Mistake, Believe

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