"Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered."
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"Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases."
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"As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him."
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"Fear kills more than disease."
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"Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow."
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"Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows therefore that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its neighbors, near or distant."
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"Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms of Biden's Disease, that form of logorrhea that causes victims, such as Sen. Joe Biden, to become lost on the syntactical back roads of their extemporaneous rhetoric."
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"Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor."
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"Suppose that I see a hungry child in the street, and I am able to offer the child some food. Am I morally culpable if I refuse to do so? Am I morally culpable if I choose not to do what I easily can about the fact that 1000 children die every hour from easily preventable disease, according to UNICEF? Or the fact that the government of my own "free and open society" is engaged in monstrous crimes that can easily be mitigated or terminated? Is it even possible to debate these questions?"
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"You go into a hospital now, it's dangerous. We can get diseases that can't be dealt with, that are moving around the hospital. A lot of that traces back to industrial meat production. These are really serious threats, all over the place."
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"It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants."
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"The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!"
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"We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and centrally placed of our adversaries. We assume that they must somehow relish what they do."
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"Death is better than disease."
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"As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease."
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"Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity."
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"But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease."
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"James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?"
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"I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else."
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"Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?"
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