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• What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

  Paracelsus

  Physicians, Disease, Alleviate

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.84, Princeton University Press

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• In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.

  Philip Larkin

  Mean, Sleep, Loving Life

  Philip Larkin (2012). “The Whitsun Weddings”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

  Josh Billings

  Pride, Men, Air

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• Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Kindness, Compassion

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.158

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• Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

  Dodie Smith

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  I Capture the Castle (1949) pt. 1, ch. 3

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• Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Hope, Selfish

  1814 Mansfield Park, ch.7.

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• I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Cutting, Perfect, Sore Throat

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• We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

  Eric Hoffer

  Needs, Protest, Trouble Maker

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• Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

  Horace

  Hurt, Eye, Years

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• This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

  Stendhal

  Blessing, Boredom, Age

  Stendhal, Joan Charles (1949). “Stendhal's The Red and the Black”

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• The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Debate, Crime, Chairs

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

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• We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

  Hernando Cortes

  Heart, Historical, Gold

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• There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Love, America, Energy

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• Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

  Ovid

  Art, Sick, Stronger

  Pontic Epistles I.III.17

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• Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

  Henri Nouwen

  Distance, Silence, Listening

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2010). “Spiritual Formation: Following the Movements of the Spirit”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

  Will Durant

  Money, Eugenics, Age

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• Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

  Maximes et pensees (1825)

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• Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

  John Tillotson

  Gratitude, Evil, Affliction

  John Tillotson (1696). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith”, p.104

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• My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.

  Bela Lugosi

  Heart, Bed Sheets, Hot

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• Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Punishment, Charity

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• He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

  Thomas Fuller

  Fitness, Health, Medicine

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• You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Mean, Hypnosis, Climate

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• Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that is going to solve it. Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do. If anyone ever cures cancer, it will be a guy with a science degree. Or a woman with a science degree.

  Bill Bryson

  Cancer, Science, Thinking

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• The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Ideas, Argument

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.429, Ballantine Books

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• Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Health, Medicine, Disease

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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