Infection Quotes - Page 6

• I got to a nine-hour surgery, I lost lots of body parts and rearranged, I got really months of infection that I lost 30 pounds. But the idea of pumping poison into my bloodstream just - I couldn't, I couldn't.

  Eve Ensler

  Ideas, Poison, Body

  "Playwright-activist Eve Ensler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• Most people who are HIV positive are on drugs and that gets their viral load so low that it's harder to transmit it. Most new infections come from people who don't know they're infected.

  Dale Peck

  People, Drug, Hiv

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

  George Santayana

  Mind, Illusion, Harmony

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.42, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most states for years. A federal ban on funding for these programs wasn't lifted until 2009. Contrast this with what happened in the U.K. At the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-1990s, the HIV infection rate in IV drug users in the U.K. was about 1%. In New York City, the American epicenter, that figure was 50%. The British had introduced widespread needle exchange in 1986. That country had no heterosexual AIDS epidemic.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Country, New York, Warrior

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• I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

  Kurt Cobain

  Guitar, Talking, Play

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• INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Iron, Water, Intellectual

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.130, University of Georgia Press

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• Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like.

  William S. Burroughs

  Pain, Cancer, Laughing

  William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (2001). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.165, Grove Press

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• My body Healed quickly. But the wound to my psyche was deep. Wide. First aid, too little, too late, left me hemorrhaging inside, the blood unstaunched by psychological bandage or love's healing magic. Eventually it scabbed over, a thick, ugly welt of memory. I work to conceal it, but no matter how hard I try, once in a while something makes me pick at it until the scarring bleeds. In my arms, Ashante cries, innocence ripped apart by circumstance. Bloodied by inhuman will. Time will prove a tourniquet. But she will always be at risk of infection. (124)

  Ellen Hopkins

  Memories, Healing, Blood

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Eye, Poison

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• The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around the tank, mostly adults, a few accompanied by children. On the seals' tank a plaque warns: COINS CAN KILL——IF SWALLOWED, COINS CAN LODGE IN AN ANIMAL'S STOMACH AND CAUSE ULCERS, INFECTIONS AND DEATH. DO NOT THROW COINS IN THE POOL. So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of the zookeepers are watching. It's not the seals I hate——it's the audience's enjoyment of them that bothers me.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Children, Hate, Animal

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.240, Pan Macmillan

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• Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Teenager, Tough

  Anne Lamott (2010). “Imperfect Birds: A Novel”, p.12, Penguin

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• Of all the systems of the body - neurological, cognitive, special, sensory - the cardiological system is the most sensitive and easily disturbed. The role of society must be to shelter these systems from infection and decay, or else the future of the human race is at stake. Like a summer fruit that is protected from insect invasion, bruising, and rot by the whole mechanism of modern farming; so must we protect the heart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Summer, Heart, Race

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.47, Harper Collins

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• Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea.

  Primo Levi

  Country, Roots, Air

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• Trends toward increasing numbers of infection and increasing drug resistance show no sign of abating.

  Joshua Sharfstein

  Numbers, Drug, Trends

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• But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance.

  Zadie Smith

  Laughing, Scared, Peanuts

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.272, Vintage

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• I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The full excision, not just the snip but the full mandatory covenant is fantastically painful, leads to trauma, leads to the dulling of the sexual relationship. And can be, in itself life-threatening at that moment. We have records, I can show them to you, of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds in the United States of boy babies who died or had life-threatening infections as a result of this disgusting practice.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Baby, Atheist, Children

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• There is nothing like the cure of fresh air for cases of bladder infection, paranoia, and Cartesian thinking.

  Rawi Hage

  Thinking, Air, Paranoia

  Rawi Hage (2013). “Carnival”, p.37, Penguin UK

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• My view is different from this, only to the extent that if a decision is taken, by the parents and doctors, that it is better that a baby should die, I believe it should be possible to carry out that decision, not only by withholding or withdrawing life-support - which can lead to the baby dying slowly from dehydration or from an infection - but also by taking active steps to end the baby's life swiftly and humanely.

  Peter Singer

  Baby, Believe, Taken

  "Princeton bioethics professor faces calls for resignation over infanticide support" by Jessica Chasmar, www.washingtontimes.com. June 16, 2015.

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• The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.

  Richard Preston

  Earth, Parasites, Attempting

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• Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers, our infections, our rapid, minute mutations, which take us toward death even as they evolve us, as a species, into some ill-defined future.

  Lauren Slater

  Fall, Mutation, Fever

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• Most of the common infections - colds, flu, diarrhea - you get environmentally transmitted either in the air or on surfaces you touch. I think people under-rate surfaces.

  Charles P. Gerba

  Thinking, Air, People

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• Which brings me to the point: In order to lose momentum, the U.S. economy has to have momentum to begin with. If it had any, I missed it. What we had was a government-prescribed course of amphetamines (to keep it up), antibiotics (to prevent infection) and antidepressants (to make it feel better). It endured regular steroid injections from both monetary and fiscal authorities. And it still has no real muscle.

  Caroline Baum

  Real, Feel Better, Government

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• A belly laugh increases the ability of your immune system to fight infections.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Fighting, Laughing, Increase

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• One of the patients that really stands out for me was a middle-aged woman who actually had HIV in the early days, and helping her kind of come to terms with that. She had rather late-stage illness, but just helping her, sort of cope with the challenges of the disease and the infections and all that, but also her social issues, like, coming out to her family about the illness, and a very religious family.

  Jill Stein

  Religious, Issues, Challenges

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• I was once dancing with a woman who told me she had a yeast infection so I told her to bake me some bread.

  George Carlin

  Dancing, Yeast, Bread

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