Quotes with disease

Quotes 81 till 100 of 123.

  • Alice Miller Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Stephen Hawking Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Publilius Syrus Some remedies are worse than the disease.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Edmund White The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
    Edmund White
    American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bill Gates The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Mother Teresa The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • John Stuart Mill The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Ashley Montagu The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel The doctor I would want for myself or for anyone else I cared about would be one who understands that disease is more than just a clinical entity; it is an experience and a metaphor, with a message that must be listened to.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bono The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Andy Rooney The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Samuel Johnson The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William James The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Betty Friedan The problem that has no name (which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities) is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
    The Feminine Mystique Ch. 14 A New Life Plan for Women
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal with them and what can we learn from them. How can they become blessings to society, as a life threatening disease is to an individual, by teaching us about the meaning of our life and existence?
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson 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
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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