Disease Quotes - Page 9

• Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.

  Denis Parsons Burkitt

  Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment

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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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• More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases.

  Ron Kind

  Cells, Important, Research

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• It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.

  Philip E. Berger

  Fun, Mean, Hiv

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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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• Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
  Pale in her anger washes all the air,
  That rheumatic diseases do abound;
  And through this distemperature we see
  The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
  Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Science, Moon

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 103

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• Ever so often in the history of human endeavour, there comes a breakthrough that takes humankind across a frontier into a new era. ... today's announcement is such a breakthrough, a breakthrough that opens the way for massive advancement in the treatment of cancer and hereditary diseases. And that is only the beginning.

  Tony Blair

  Cancer, Science, Progress

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• The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.

  Georges Rouault

  Artist, Names, Joy

  "Stella Vespertina" by Georges Rouault, 1947.

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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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• Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.

  Rene Dubos

  Half, Wisps, Hazy

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• Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.

  Paul Berg

  Technology, Drug, Serious

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• Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

  William Shenstone

  Poetry, Flattering, Consumption

  William Shenstone (1868). “The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.18

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• There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

  Chanakya

  Integrity, Mind, Contentment

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• We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  America, Fickle, Transcendentalism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.115, Library of America

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  God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

  John Muir

  Nature, Sea, Tree

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.373, The Mountaineers Books

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• Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there any better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the usual law of nature, by careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease.

  William Harvey

  Nature, Science, Practice Of Medicine

  1987 Making It Happen: Reflections on Leadership.

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• The remedy is worse than the disease.

  Francis Bacon

  Latin, Remedy, Latin Phrases

  Essays "Of Seditions and Troubles" (1625)

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• Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.

  Arundhati Roy

  Terrorism, Symptoms

  Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.218, Haymarket Books

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• Life is an incurable disease.

  Abraham Cowley

  Life, Success, Existence

  "To Dr. Scarborough" l. 111 (1656)

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• All diseases run into one, old age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Funny Relationship, Hair

  Journals

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• A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

  Guy Fawkes

  Risk, Management, Desperate

  6 November 1605. 'Dictionary of National Biography'.

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• Being an only child is a disease in itself.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Children, Only Child

  "Yes, I'm an only child and, no, I'm not depressed - or beastly" by Audrey Gillan, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2013.

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• In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have.

  Conan O'Brien

  Alzheimer's, Cells, Brain

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• The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

  Simone Weil

  Tuberculosis, Poison, Soil

  Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

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• It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

  Virginia Woolf

  Birthday, Running, People

  1922 Jacob's Room, ch.6.

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