Quotes with diseases

  • The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
  • We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.

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  • Bernie S. Siegel Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Susan Sontag A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bruce Lipton A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All diseases run into one. Old age.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bill Maris As life expectancy extends beyond 80 years in some parts of the world, more people are struggling with brain diseases. For older people, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other conditions become a major impediment to quality of life.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Sir Thomas Browne Death is the cure for all diseases.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • John Ray Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
    John Ray
    English naturalist (1627 - 1705)
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  • Voltaire Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Burton Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet.
    Burton
     
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  • Ban Ki-moon Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • James Tyler Kent He who considers disease results to be the disease itself, and expects to do away with these as diseases, is insane. It is an insanity in medicine, an insanity that has grown out of the milder forms of mental disorder in science, crazy whims.
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  • Arlen Specter Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Boris Sidis If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.
    The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Euripides Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Virginia Woolf It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Karl Marx Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all the pus that has gathered in you. It is painful, but it is cleansing, and there is no other way to cleanse you.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Barry Marshall My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis - all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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