Disease Quotes - Page 32

• It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death, nor is darkness the beginning of light, nor is disease the maker of health, but in the changes of conditions there are transitions from one condition to the contrary.

  Saint Basil

  Light, Evil, Darkness

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.28, CUA Press

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• Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.

  Saint Basil

  Art, Fall, Toil

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.331, CUA Press

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• Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

  Mario Batali

  Cancer, Heart, Hunger

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• I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her every need for three years might have looked codependent but it wasn't because it was what I wanted to do.

  Melody Beattie

  Mother, Alzheimer's, Years

  Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2011.

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• The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Numbers, Balance

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• We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Poverty, Tasks

  Wendell Berry (2012). “It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays”, p.27, Counterpoint Press

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• The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

  Bono

  Ocean, Eye, Mean

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• Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

  William J. Brennan

  Aggravation, Flow, Disability

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• Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

  Sitting Bull

  Mind, Soil, Enough

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire family. My first grandmother passed away from bone cancer when I was about 10. It was really horrible. I remember the whole process like it was yesterday.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Cancer, Grandmother, Two

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• I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.

  George H. W. Bush

  Moving, Brain, Legs

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• I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

  Jimmy Carter

  Mother, Country, Children

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• The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.

  Jimmy Carter

  Mean, Thinking, World

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• If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

  Nick Cave

  Hard Work, Autumn, Years

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• Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.

  Margaret Chan

  Country, Doctors, Nurse

  "Interview with Dr. Margaret Chan". "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. April 16, 2007.

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• A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor.

  Margaret Chan

  Mother, Children, Impact

  "WHO director general Margaret Chan says fight for global health on all fronts" by Sarah Boseley, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2011.

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• HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem.

  Margaret Chan

  Country, Hiv, Aids Day

  "Interview with Dr. Margaret Chan". "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. April 16, 2007.

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• I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful life. And I don't believe that my heart disease changed me for the worst.

  Dick Cheney

  Believe, Heart, Able

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• Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  God, Animal, Men

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• I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Self, Want

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2009.

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• Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Stupid, Miracle, Disaster

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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  Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

  Barry Commoner

  Environmental, Pollution, Environmental Pollution

  "At 90, an Environmentalist From the '70s Still Has Hope". Interview With Thomas Vinciguerra, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2007.

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• I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.

  Gail Devers

  Radiation, Illness, Graves

  "Gail Devers: 'A girl asked what was wrong with me. She said I looked like a monster'". Interview with Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2007.

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• It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

  Jared Diamond

  Native American, Epidemics, Giving

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• Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.

  Jared Diamond

  Literature, World, Tribes

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