"Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease."
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"There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor."
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"People don't die of old age, they die of diseases that accompany old age, and they are preventable."
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"I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me."
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"Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time."
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"Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it."
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"My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria."
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"My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases."
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"The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success is our national disease."
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"It is the disease of not listening...... that I am troubled with."
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"I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man."
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"The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith"
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"Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal."
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"My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five."
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"Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition."
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"I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult, and I decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces that I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have."
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"Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself."
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"There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick."
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"Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology."
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"All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such."
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