Disease Quotes - Page 22

• There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts.

  Louis L'Amour

  War, Character, Hard Times

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• This disease they call 'rap' - some kind of rhythmic pulse is going by, while some sociopathic idiot is belching out grade school poetry.

  Frank Sinatra, Jr.

  Rap, School, Pulse

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• Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Spiritual, Parent, Moral

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• Liberalism is a disease cured only by a lobotomy or 90 days in a third world country.

  Josh Bernstein

  Country, World, Lobotomy

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• Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

  Frederick Douglass

  Ignorance, People, Evil

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.214, Chicago Review Press

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• The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Loss, Wrath, Evil

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1821). “Queen Mab, a philosophical poem, with notes. [reputed to have been given by the author to W. Francis. Wanting the title-leaf, dedication and part of the last leaf].”, p.158

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• Among those kinds of food which the good housekeeper should scrupulously banish from her table, is that of hot leavened bread....I believe it more often lays the foundation of diseases of the stomach, than any other kind of nourishment, used among us.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Believe, Foundation, Hot

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• Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work.

  Anita Roddick

  Creating, Getting Older, Doe

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• Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by which epidemic diseases contributed to the destruction of classical civilization. Christianity owes a formidable debt to bubonic plague and to smallpox, no less than to earthquake and volcanic eruptions.

  Hans Zinsser

  Christian, Civilization, Earthquakes

  Hans Zinsser (2011). “Rats, Lice and History”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

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• The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.

  Catherine Marshall

  Disappointment, Loss, Blessing

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• What is it to bring the man out of his sepulchre if you leave him dead? Why lead him into the light if he is still blind? We thank God, that he who forgives our iniquities also heals our diseases.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Light, Forgiving

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “All of Grace (Authentic Original Classic): An urgent Word with Those Who Are Seeking Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ”, p.69, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Our intention is not to create cloned human beings, but rather to make lifesaving therapies for a wide range of human disease conditions, including diabetes, strokes, cancer, AIDS, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.

  Robert Lanza

  Cancer, Alzheimer's, Intention

  "Company behind the clones: Advanced Cell Technology" by Porter Anderson, www.cnn.com. November 25, 2001.

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• What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism, and welfare statism.

  Leonard Read

  Names, Causes, Trouble

  Leonard E. Read (1990). “The freedom philosophy”, Foundation for Economic Education

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• We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good.

  Ennio Morricone

  Musical, Style, World

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• Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.

  Todd Haynes

  Nostalgia

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Important, Elements, Remember

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.72, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Relief, or redistribution of income, voluntary or coerced, is never the true solution of poverty, but at best a makeshift, which may mask the disease and mitigate the pain, but provides no basic cure.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Pain, Relief, Income

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• Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.

  William Osler

  Jaundice

  Sir William Osler: Aphorisms Ch. 5

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• The real enemy is not fat but us. We are the misusers; we are the greedy ones. If we have no better sense than to purposefully destroy ourselves, it is no wonder that nature punishes us with vile diseases and calls in our maker long before their time. Nature remembers every extra bite of cherry pie, T-bone steak, fried chicken, pizza.

  Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

  Real, Pie, Long

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• If [you are] over the age of 10, the question isn't whether or not to eat healthy to prevent heart disease, it's whether or not you want to reverse the heart disease you already have.

  Michael Greger

  Heart, Healthy, Age

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• The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and degradation every year than the holocaust managed in its entire show. And it's thought rather crass to even mention the fact. It seems to me that as long as these Catholic bishops can show their face in public that we are in complicity with mass murder.

  Terence McKenna

  Years, Long, People

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• Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

  Terence McKenna

  Self, Alcoholism

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• Stand up to hypocrisy. If you don't, the hypocrites will teach. Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease.

  Suzy Kassem

  Running, Ignorance, Hypocrite

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

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• No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect... To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Democratic Socialism, Government

  "The Downing Street Years". Book by Margaret Thatcher, October 18, 1993.

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• The supernatural is being swept out of the universe in the flood of new knowledge of what is natural. It will soon be as impossible for an intelligent, educated man or woman to believe in a god as it is now to believe that earth is flat, that flies can be spontaneously generated, that disease is a divine punishment, or that death is always due to witchcraft.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Intelligent, Men

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