"A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so."
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"My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it."
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"I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome."
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"Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things change. People get sick. Families break apart, your friends could close the door on you."
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"I feel sick if I have to do something for the money. I can't breathe. I'm not proud of myself."
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"The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering."
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"If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick."
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"Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair, Playing in the wanton air: Through the velvet leaves the wind, All unseen can passage find; That the lover, sick to death, Wish'd himself the heaven's breath."
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"It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it."
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"Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick."
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"Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru."
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"There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired."
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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. We have lost it, or we have never had it; and, because we do not know how to judge anything, we have been led here and pushed there, beaten up, driven, politically, religiously and socially. We don't know, but it is difficult to say we don't know."
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"I'm so mean I make medicine sick!"
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"And, you know, I don’t want to have to worry that she is going to get sick as the consequence of having, having her lunch."
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"The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic."
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"Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me."
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"I'm not really that sick of Evil Dead. I can trace all roots back to The Evil Dead movies, so I have nothing against them. It's just that I've done more non-Evil Dead stuff; it's not the only thing I've done. There are some actors who have done a cult movie and they are forever going to be the Policeman #2 in Plan 9 From Outer Space."
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"It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching."
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"It is from your hands that Our Lord, in the person of the sick, seeks relief."
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