Quotes with illness

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  • John Wanamaker People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
    John Wanamaker
    American merchant and religious (1838 - 1922)
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  • Angela Davis Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Carl Honore Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Norman Mailer The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Alan Thicke There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Leo Buscaglia There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • C. Everett Koop They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Harry A. Overstreet To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
    Harry A. Overstreet
    American writer and lecturer (1875 - 1970)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bill Kurtis We know Roger Ebert loved the 'Sun-Times' and his career as a newspaper columnist. But ironically, it was his illness and losing his voice that caused him to explore another venue.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Carl Honore We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.'
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Bernadette Peters When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • George Orwell Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe Thank Heaven! the crisis - the danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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