Quotes with disease

Quotes 101 till 120 of 123.

  • Publilius Syrus There are some remedies worse than the disease.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Sir William Osler There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Oscar Wilde Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Matthew Arnold This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • John Tillotson Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • Alan Moore To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.
    Alan Moore
    English writer (1953 - )
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  • Sir William Osler Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Baron William Henry Beveridge Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
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  • Brad Stone We see Google experimenting in so many places outside of its core search and advertising business, whether that's bringing broadband Internet to the world or funding an entirely separate company to pursue solutions to disease and mortality. Amazon's one of the few other companies that thinks as big as Google does.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • Ann Veneman We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Bill Gates What if Columbus had been told, Chris, baby, don't go now. Wait until we've solved our number-one priorities - war and famine; poverty and crime; pollution and disease; illiteracy and racial hatred....
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Alexander Pope What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Anton Chekhov When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • George Bernard Shaw When men die of disease they are said to die from
    natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do)
    the doctor gets the credit of curing them.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carl Honore Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Susan Sontag With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease - because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Jean Baptiste Racine Without money honor is merely a disease.
    Jean Baptiste Racine
    French playwright (1639 - 1699)
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  • Boris Pasternak You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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