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 prove that tuberculosis is caused by the invasion of bacilli, and that it is a parasitic disease primarily caused by the growth and multiplication of bacilli, it is necessary to isolate the bacilli from the body, to grow them in pure culture until they are freed from every disease product of the animal organism, and, by introducing isolated bacilli into animals, to reproduce the same morbid condition that is known to follow from inoculation with spontaneously developed tuberculous material.

  Robert Koch

  Animal, Growth, Tuberculosis

  Robert Koch (1987). “Essays of Robert Koch”, Praeger Pub Text

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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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• It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

  Alice Hamilton

  House, Hull, Interest

  Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.92, Read Books Ltd

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• Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.

  Tim Holden

  Epidemics, Leader, Association

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• AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.

  Luc Montagnier

  Winning, Thinking, Years

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• If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

  Jean O'Leary

  Different, Hiv, Stories

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• Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.

  Serge Lang

  Drug Use, Hiv, Causes

  Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.622, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

  Olivier Martinez

  Believe, Age, Actors

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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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• There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

  Serge Lang

  Negative, Hiv, Defining

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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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• One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Two Sides, People, Literature

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• Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Work, Drug, Abuse

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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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