Disease Quotes - Page 7

• No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

  Maimonides

  Inspiring, Food, Mean

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• But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Cancer, Support

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.

  Sargent Shriver

  Mean, Racism, Racist

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• Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

  Susan Sontag

  Real, Political, Aliens

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.107, Penguin UK

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• There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

  Benjamin Spock

  Funny, Mother, Children

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• The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Life, Spiritual, Century

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• The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.

  Denis Parsons Burkitt

  Way, Lifestyle, Ancestor

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• You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything. Things that used to upset me no longer do.

  Grete Waitz

  Perspective, Upset, Different

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• Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

  Plutarch

  Music, Medicine, Harmony

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• Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Evil, Departure

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.316, Wordsworth Editions

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• I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mean, People, Helping

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• Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

  Karl Kraus

  Boredom, Literature, Syphilis

  "Karl Kraus". Book by Harry Zohn, p. 47, 1971.

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• We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease.

  Mary Ann Mobley

  Thinking, Different, Kind

  "Mary Ann Mobley: going public about a private disease". Saturday Evening Post Interview with Cory SerVaas, January 1, 1994.

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• I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Sound, Fit

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.162, Cambridge University Press

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• Despair often breeds disease.

  Sophocles

  Despair

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• Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

  Tom Allen

  Cells, Promise, Research

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• We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats - and have sought its acquaintance wherever we could find it. And in this growing intimacy we have become increasingly impressed with the influence that this and other infectious diseases, which span - in their protoplasmic continuities - the entire history of mankind, have had upon the fates of men.

  Hans Zinsser

  Writing, Fate, Men

  Hans Zinsser (2011). “Rats, Lice and History”, p.6, Transaction Publishers

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• [I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called for while they work. Such are the workers who all day stand or sit, stoop or are bent double, who run or ride or exercise their bodies in all sorts of [excess] ways. ... the harvest of diseases reaped by certain workers ... [from] irregular motions in unnatural postures of the body.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Running, Exercise, Science

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• Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

  Euripides

  Worst, Humans, Impudence

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• That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  Thinking, Signals, Turning Points

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• The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together.

  John Arbuthnot

  Cities, Together, Care

  An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies Ch. 9, No. 20

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• To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind.

  Sengcan

  Wisdom, Mind, Zen Buddhist

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• There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Treatment, Bottom

  'The Doctor's Dilemma' (1911) act 1

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• The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

  Arthur Erickson

  Tourism, Tourists, Demand

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• People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn't get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  Crazy, People, Would Be

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