Disease Quotes

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  One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring

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• Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Happiness, Courage

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• Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

  Paracelsus

  Nature, Health, Mean

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• The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.

  Hippocrates

  Healing, Form, Manifold

  Hippocrates (1967). “Hippocrates”

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• Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.

  Henri Poincare

  Race, Topology, Humans

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• Trash is something you get rid of - or disease. I'm not something you get rid of.

  Lana Turner

  Trash

  Lana Turner (1982). “Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth”, Dutton Adult

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• It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time-and long before that-God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools.

  John Muir

  Years, Long, Tree

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.373, The Mountaineers Books

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• I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all you great Men at Soho to-day-Lord! what inventions, what wit, what rhetoric, metaphysical, mechanical and pyrotecnical, will be on the wing, bandy'd like a shuttlecock from one to another of your troop of philosophers! while poor I, I by myself I, imprizon'd in a post chaise, am joggled, and jostled, and bump'd, and bruised along the King's high road, to make war upon a pox or a fever!

  Erasmus Darwin

  Kings, Sorry, War

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• Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short duration, or of small quantity, they have gain'd credit which they do not deserve.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Drug, Credit, Duration

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• The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease.

  Jacques Chirac

  Mad Cow Disease, Agriculture, Done

  "Chirac jokes about British food". news.bbc.co.uk. July 4, 2005.

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• Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Fear, Mind, Body

  Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures 493:17 (1875)

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• Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Jealousy, Mistake

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

  Alexander Pope

  Food, Health, Anxiety

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• Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

  Susan Sontag

  Women, Important, Causality

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Spiritual, Health, Medicine

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.166

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• Some remedies are worse than the disease.

  Publilius Syrus

  Latin, Health, Rome

  "Maxims". 301,

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• Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Philosophical, Racism, Political

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• It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

  Patricia Heaton

  Kids, Parenting, Healthy

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• The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

  George Santayana

  Health, Men, Instinct

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.129, Indiana University Press

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• I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it

  Teri Garr

  Thinking, Medicine, Different

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• One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) He has St. Vitus's dance, He has nerve fever, He has dropsy, He has ague, since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.

  Samuel Hahnemann

  Names, Confusion, Fever

  Samuel Hahnemann (1982). “Organon of medicine”, J P Tarcher

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• What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

  Paul Farmer

  Should Have, Arguing, Dies

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• Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Alzheimer's, Aggravation, Grandfather

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• The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Nature, Confused, Effort

  Thomas Sydenham, Robert Gordon Latham (1848). “The Works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.”, p.16

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• Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Taken, Thinking, Medicine

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