"Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease"
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"Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
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"As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious."
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"When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice."
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"Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society."
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"There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes."
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"Great passions are incurable diseases."
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"That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people."
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"For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable."
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"Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was entitled to welfare, and our lives revolved around the first day of every month when her payment was due."
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"It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death."
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"Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of untold misery and unhappiness, as well as of disease."
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"We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage."
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"The gods have become our diseases."
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"It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants."
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"I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing."
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"Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas."
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"Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit."
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"A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others."
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"To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality."
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