"Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself."
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"Seriousness is a disease of the ego"
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"As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases."
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"People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age..."
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"Doctors should first understand the cause of disease, then treat it with diet. Medicine should only be used if diet fails"
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"Look well to the spine for the cause of disease."
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"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."
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"To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting"
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"If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference."
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"When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease."
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"Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb."
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"The patient must combat the disease along with the physician."
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"Bigotry is the disease of ignorance."
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"I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease."
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"Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material."
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"Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it."
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"And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head."
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"No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one."
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"Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease."
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"Heart disease has changed my eating habits, but I still cook bacon for the smell."
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