Disease Quotes - Page 37

• Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy

  Austin O'Malley

  Atheist, Philosophy, Mind

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• Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

  Plato

  Atheist, Errors, Understanding

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Hunger (for things) is the supreme disease.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Hunger, Supreme

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• Integrated meditation practice is like a healthy diet
  which is indispensable for maintaining your vitality and resistance to disease.
  Likewise, a balanced meditative practice in the course of a socially engaged way of life
  heightens your psychological immune system, so that you are less vulnerable to mental imbalances of all kinds.

  B. Alan Wallace

  Meditation Practice, Healthy, Vitality

  B. Alan Wallace (2010). “The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.

  Mourning Dove

  Native American, Marijuana, Purpose

  Mourning Dove (1994). “Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography”, p.69, U of Nebraska Press

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• The male chromosome is an incomplete female chromosome. In other words the male is a walking abortion; aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.

  Valerie Solanas

  Sarcastic, Emotional, Abortion

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• Disease cannot live in a body that's in a healthy emotional state.

  Bob Proctor

  Health, Emotional, Body

  "The Secret". Documentary, 2006.

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• Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.

  James Ramsey Ullman

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Ocean

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• One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.

  Gautama Buddha

  Meditation, Suffering, Path

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• I wonder what sentences judges might hand down at future international criminal tribunals on those who will be partially but directly responsible for millions of deaths from starvation, famine, and disease in the decades ahead.

  Mark Lynas

  Science, Hands, Judging

  "A climate of censorship" by Brendan O'Neill, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2006.

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• The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.

  Thomas Lovejoy

  War, Environmental, Break Out

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• We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health

  Thoraya Obaid

  Issues, Challenges, Environmental

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• Steve Rom's bravery is unique. Faced with life-threatening circumstances, he focused his determination and spirit to defeat an unbeatable disease. Steve's story is an inspiration to all.

  Fred Dryer

  Determination, Inspiration, Unique

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• It’s not the plant-based foods that will make you ill, it’s the meat and the liquid meat (i.e.: dairy) that can lead to sickness and death. Consider this: If your food had a face or a mother (or comes from something that did), then it also has varying amounts of artery-clogging, plaque-plugging, and cholesterol-hiking animal protein, animal cholesterol, and animal fat. These substances are the building blocks of the chronic diseases that plague Western society.

  Rip Esselstyn

  Mother, Block, Animal

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• There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease.

  Komla Dumor

  War, Usual, Stories

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• Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

  Hesiod

  Wise, Night, Men

  Hesiod (2007). “Theogony and Works and Days”, p.44, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

  Plato

  Mistake, Health, Two

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• But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.

  Price Pritchett

  Responsibility, Ethical Standards, Organization

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• Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease.

  Judith Peacock

  Depression, Cancer, Heart

  Judith Peacock, Jackie Casey (2000). “Depression”, p.4, Capstone

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• Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

  Cyril Connolly

  Motivational, Disappointment, Loss

  The Unquiet Grave Pt I

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• We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

  Hippocrates

  Body, Wellness, Observation

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• It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married).

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Girl, Baby, Cancer

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• Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia, malaria and all the everyday health emergencies with nowhere to go.

  Richard E. Besser

  Pregnancy, Heart, Pneumonia

  "Another American Doctor Tests Positive for Ebola in West Africa" by Sydney Lupkin, abcnews.go.com. September 2, 2014.

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• Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Giving, Hip Hop

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• In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion.

  Gregory S. Paul

  Pregnancy, Abortion, Religion

  "Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies". moses.creighton.edu. 2005.

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