Disease Quotes - Page 13

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Happiness, Courage

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• I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

  Roddy McDowall

  Jobs, Thinking, Actors

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• If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff.

  Denis Parsons Burkitt

  Fall, People, Cliffs

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• I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Humility, Strange, Architecture

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• If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Get Well Soon, Health, Way

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• When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Liberty, Bed

  "2012 calendar: Pin-ups for Ron Paul" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. November 15, 2011.

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• Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Dog, People, Shelter

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.159, Pan Macmillan

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• For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

  Aeschylus

  Hate, Heart, Hatred

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• Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

  Sophocles

  Anger, Drug, Physicians

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• And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Thinking, Sorrow, Age

  'Dipsychus' (1865) sc. 6

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• Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Writing, Literature, Artistic

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• When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

  Pierre Corneille

  Patient, Remedy, Unwilling

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• The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

  William E. Gladstone

  Country, Practice, Evil

  Speech, Plumstead, UK (1878)

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• Discrimination is a disease.

  Roger Staubach

  Racism, Discrimination

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• Anthrax is a deadly inhalational disease.

  Steven Hatfill

  Reincarnation, Anthrax

  Hatfill's Statement, www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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• I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

  Loni Anderson

  Cancer, Involved, Lungs

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• Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.

  Mitch Daniels

  Real, Marijuana, Smoking

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• Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."

  William Thomas Councilman

  Science, Environmental, May

  William Thomas Councilman (1913). “Disease and its causes”

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• A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.

  Lee Haney

  Cancer, Heart, Holiday

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• People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?

  Harlan Ellison

  Science, People, Progress

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Troublemakers”, p.244, Open Road Media

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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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• Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Expression, Absence, Mere

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• A good diet is the most powerful weapon we have against disease and sickness.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Powerful, Weapons, Sickness

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2013). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health”, p.19, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -- and create profitable diseases and dependencies -- by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving.

  Wendell Berry

  Broken, Ordinary, Connections

  "The Art of the Commonplace". Book by Wendell Berry, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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• The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese and are more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

  Ellen Gustafson

  Children, Two, America

  "Solving the world's hunger and obesity crises together" by Ellen Gustafson, www.cnn.com. August 10, 2010.

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