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Upton Sinclair Novelist, Activist
Disease

"Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person."

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Disease

"Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on."

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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
Disease

"The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance."

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