"Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all."
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"Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health."
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"Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest."
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"Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis."
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"Liberalism is a disease cured only by a lobotomy or 90 days in a third world country."
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"It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen"
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"Most disease is lifestyle related and preventable"
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"We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease."
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"Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption."
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"The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]"
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"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord."
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"If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure."
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"I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody."
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"I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride."
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"Despair often breeds disease."
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"To think too much is a disease."
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"I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease."
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"Saying you "have" something implies that it's temporary and undesirable. Asperger's isn't like that. You've been Aspergian as long as you can remember, and you'll be that way all your life. It's a way of being, not a disease."
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"The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough."
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"All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds."
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