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• Beginning in 1940,...questionable grades of (low) malignancy were classed as cancer. ...the proportion of 'cancer' cures...increased rapidly.

  Hardin B. Jones

  Cancer, Dark, Age

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• Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

  Gary Zukav

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Insecurity

  Gary Zukav, Linda Francis (2012). “Heart Of The Soul: Emotional Awareness”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• ... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

  Charles Dickens

  Growing Up, Women, Thinking

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• It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask, 'For which people ("& why") is drug A better than drug B, and vice versa? If drug A cures 40% and drug B cures 60%, perhaps the right choice of drug for each person would result in 100% cures.'

  Lancelot Hogben

  Dark, Average, People

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• Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul.

  R. D. Laing

  Doctors, Medicine, Differences

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• 'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.

  Walter Raleigh

  Medicine

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• ...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.

  C. S. Lewis

  Rights, Punishment, Names

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• Is it not the worst pain to know there is a cure for your child's illness and then not be able to obtain it? Oh it must be the one of the worst types of pain in the world.

  Nnedi Okorafor

  Children, Pain, World

  Nnedi Okorafor (2008). “Zahrah the Windseeker”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people to do such extravagant, irrational things. Now I do. It's an illness. You can catch it when you least expect. There's no known cure. And sometimes, in its most extreme, it's fatal.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Thinking, Intelligent

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could not convince and sinners he could not convert. Forgiveness of sins requires an act of will on the receiver's part, and some who heard Jesus' strongest words about grace and forgiveness turned away unrepentant.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Birth Defects, Grace

  Philip Yancey (2009). “The Jesus I Never Knew Participant's Guide: Six Sessions on the Life of Christ”, p.23, Zondervan

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• Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Misery, Mankind

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Cambridge University Press

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• Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked; on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light; and let us remember for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till we begin to cure them.

  Francois Fenelon

  Christian, Light, Wicked

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• The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.

  Malcolm X

  Junkie, Conditions

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.267, Ballantine Books

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• Everybody seems to have given up hope of trying. I haven't. It isn't easy and it isn't supposed to be, but I'm accomplishing something. How many people give up a lot to do something good. I'm sure we would have found a cure for cancer 20 years ago if we had really tried

  Terry Fox

  Giving Up, Cancer, Years

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• A wealth of knowledge is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the earth. Their classroom was nature. They studied the lessons to be learned from animals, knowing that much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. Animals are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.

  Suzy Kassem

  Teaching, Animal, Wealth Of Knowledge

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• [T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Magic, Politics, Wave

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• Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Happiness, Success, Pain

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3497, Delphi Classics

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• Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us able to heal. Becoming expert has turned out to be less important than remembering and trusting the wholeness in myself and everyone else. Expertise cures, but wounded people can best be healed by other wounded people. Only other wounded people can understand what is needed, for the healing of suffering is compassion, not expertise.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Healing, Compassion, People

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.158, Penguin

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• We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Faults, Disaster, Dismayed

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• If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.

  Bernie Siegel

  Healing, Recovery, Foundation

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• The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Crime, Blunders, Blindness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.401

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• Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.

  Henri Nouwen

  Running, Reality, Trying

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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• There's nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can't cure.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Depression, Witty

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• Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.

  William Shakespeare

  Disease, Desperate, Relieved

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. 9

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• It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.

  Ovid

  Speak

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