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• You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

  Carrie Fisher

  Weekend, Vegas, Upset Stomach

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

  Thomas More

  Change, Fall, Disease

  Thomas More (2010). “Utopia”, p.44, Bibliolis Books

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• Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspiring, Fitness, Health

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.133, The Floating Press

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• The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, Men, Sensible

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• I'll give you some symptoms of a sign that your faith is deteriorating-whenever you face all of your problems and you trust only your plans to get you out-it is a sign that your faith is deteriorating.

  T. D. Jakes

  Giving, Worry, Faces

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• Sahaja Yoga has cured people from cancer, from all kinds of diseases which they call incurable. How? Just by awakening the Kundalini. Sahaja Yogis don't go to any doctor, they had become doctors without studying Medicine. They treat the basics. While science is analysis, like a tree has got some leaves and are showing the symptoms of some disease they try to treat the leaves. But if you have to treat the leaves, you cannot do any justice, you have to go to the roots and treat the sap! And that is how - that is the only way you can treat the tree.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Cancer

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• If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Rewards, Wealth, Prosperity

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• Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it's a disease... If you have a brain tumor, if you have cancer, that's a disease. To say that an addiction is a disease is not fair to the real diseases of the world.

  C.C. DeVille

  Growing Up, Real, Cancer

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• Actual Gratitude is the Symptom of Humility.

  Radhanath Swami

  Gratitude, Humility

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• Humility is a natural symptom of those who love God.

  Radhanath Swami

  Humility, God Love, Natural

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• The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction; he has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system at some determinate period of time; but we may rest assured, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws now existing, and that it is not indicated by any thing which we perceive.

  John Playfair

  Nature, Hard Work, Science

  John Playfair, Adam Ferguson, Gordon Younger Craig (1997). “James Hutton & Joseph Black: Biographies”

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• Violence is a symptom of impotence.

  Anais Nin

  Violence, Impotence

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• Sleep is just a symptom of caffeine lack

  Herman Friele

  Coffee, Sleep, Caffeine

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• The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.

  Hannah Arendt

  Life, Pain, Effort

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.120, University of Chicago Press

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• Because the demands on the goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is himself. Not a puck, not a opponent, not a quirk of size or style. The stress and anxiety he feels when he plays, the fear of failing, the fear of being embarrassed, the fear of being physically hurt, all symptoms of his position, in constant ebb and flow, but never disappearing. The successful goalie understands these neuroses, accept them, and put them under control. The unsuccessful goalie is distracted by them, his mind in knots. His body quickly follows.

  Ken Dryden

  Hurt, Stress, Mean

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• One key symptom of alcoholism is that the individual comes to need a drink for every mood-one to calm down, one to perk up, one to celebrate, one to deal with disappointment, and so on.

  Phyllis A. Balch

  Disappointment, Drinking, Keys

  Phyllis A. Balch (2002). “Prescription for Herbal Healing”, p.179, Penguin

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• Suppose you came across a woman lying on the street with an elephant sitting on her chest. You notice she is short of breath. Shortness of breath can be a symptom of heart problems. In her case, the much more likely cause is the elephant on her chest. For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences. That is the elephant. Until the playing field has veen leveled and lingering stereotypes are gone, you can't even ask the question.

  Sally Ride

  Lying, Heart, Bad Ass

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• Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

  Joan Rivers

  Hurt, Fear, Grief

  "Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes" by Readers Digest, (p. 87), 1997.

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• If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community.

  Barack Obama

  Healing, Home, School

  "Obama Says He, Too, Is a Poverty Fighter". Speech at the Town Hall Education, Arts & Recreation Campus, Washington, DC, www.washingtonpost.com. July 19, 2007.

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• Medical researchers have discovered a new disease that has no symptoms. It is impossible to detect, and there is no known cure. Fortunately, no cases have been reported thus far.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Disease, Impossible

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Spiritual, Health, Medicine

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.166

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• The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.

  Paul Tillich

  Success, Maturity, Achievement

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• My wife, like many women, actually LIKES wrapping things. If she gives you a gift that requires batteries, she wraps the batteries separately, which to me is very close to being a symptom of mental illness.

  Dave Barry

  Funny Christmas, Giving, Wife

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• The deadliest blow the enemy of the human soul can strike is to do fury honor. . . . Official acceptance is the one unmistakable symptom that salvation is beaten again, and is the one surest sign of fatal misunderstanding, and is the kiss of Judas.

  James Agee

  Acceptance, Kissing, Blow

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But, as Douglas E Harding has pointed out, we tend to think of this planet as a life-infested rock, which is as absurd as thinking of the human body as a cell infested skeleton. Surely all forms of life, including man, must be understood as "symptoms" of the earth, the solar system, and the galaxy in which case we cannot escape the conclusion that the galaxy is intelligent.

  Alan Watts

  Men, Thinking, Intelligent

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