"Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease."
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"They were very short, the golden years. The golden years are when you can sit back, hopefully, and exchange memories. And that's the worst part about this disease. There's nobody to exchange memories with."
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"The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold."
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"Humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear."
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"In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it."
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"We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers."
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"Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these."
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"It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest."
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"One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease."
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"The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine."
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"A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."
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"I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable."
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"The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism."
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"There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!"
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"Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants."
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"AIDS is no longer just a disease, it is a human rights issue."
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"If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust."
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"Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease."
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"Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health."
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"Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other."
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