"Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again."
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"I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition."
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"Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious."
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"You know the disease, you know the remedy, only have faith."
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"Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you."
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"Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age."
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"Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it."
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"Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul."
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"I feel like humans are a disease. It's a hard thing to communicate in a pop song. I mean, who wants to hear that?"
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"Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of."
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"I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does."
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"WhenIWasYourAge: People were never "living with their disease." We cured them. Or they died from it."
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"If Cassie was invalidated because she caught the disease, or because Fred suspected her of it, I can only imagine what he will do to me and to my family if he discovers that the cure did not work perfectly."
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"Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness."
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"They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie."
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"They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace. They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie."
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"Cure the disease and kill the patient."
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"For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another."
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"Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation."
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"We shall immunize every child in Africa to get rid of this terrible disease forever."
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