"A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power."
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"Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease."
"You're a disease. And I'm the cure."
"Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine."
"The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea."
"The hunger of passions is the greatest disease."
"I have a condition called Menieres disease which is a problem with fluid retention in the inner ear. It has four symptoms: ringing in the ear, pressure in the ear, fluctuating hearing loss, and attacks of vertigo."
"The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease."
"Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time."
"Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers."
"Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."
"Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it."
"Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?"
"Perfection is a disease of a nation."
"Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization."
"All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants."
"Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image."
"The medicine increases the disease."
"O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease."
"Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum."