"The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism."
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"Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body."
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"Sickness and disease are a change in awareness from comfort to discomfort."
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"So far, I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay combative even while taking the measure of my inevitable decline. I repeat, this is no more than what a healthy person has to do in slower motion."
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"Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure."
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"I'll get to see many disease eradications. and we're seeing a lot of progress."
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"AIDS we're - most of these diseases - we are down from the peak. We're down about 40 per cent from the peak and if we got the right vaccines, which are at the early stage of discovering, then the numbers would come down very dramatically. So that's why we talk about it as an emergency."
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"We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease."
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"My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them."
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"I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease."
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"Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease."
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"Love is a disease – ultimately you get sick of each other"
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"I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian."
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"There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future."
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"Drug-use is a terminal disease."
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"The pink campaign has also served to "normalize" and depoliticize the disease and that makes it less threatening for a LOT of companies to jump onboard and claim breast cancer as their cause."
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"If you have a disease and suddenly start getting ads for cures for that disease and it's an embarrassing disease - all that kind of stuff it just gets into that zone of autonomy or privacy where you feel a sense of freedom to be who you want to be."
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"I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured."
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"Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured."
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"Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life."
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