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Fred Wilson Artist, Curator
Disease

"We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration."

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Martin Luther Theologian
Disease

"The confidence that God is mindful of the individual is of tremendous value in dealing with the disease of fear, for it gives us a sense of worth, of belonging, and of at homeness in the universe."

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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
Disease

"The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors."

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Peter Lewis Allen Singer-songwriter
Disease

"Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity."

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
Disease

"Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery."

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Edith Wharton Novelist, Short Story Writer
Disease

"It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except those who gave rise to them."

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
Disease

"A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion."

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