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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
Disease

"Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives."

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Erasmus Darwin Physician, Poet, Inventor
Disease

"Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short duration, or of small quantity, they have gain'd credit which they do not deserve."

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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet
Disease

"In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Disease

"The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful."

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Edgar Allan Poe Poet, Writer
Disease

"True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute."

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Erasmus Darwin Physician, Poet, Inventor
Disease

"The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation."

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