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- Nov 07, 2020
Disease Quotes
Illness, metaphor, and the will to endure.
This page pairs quotes about literal illness with quotes that use disease as a political metaphor - one speaker names debt as the single most corrosive force in a nation's history, another describes the private grief of a cancer diagnosis. Related reading includes Health.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know why I couldn't sing - all I knew was that it was muscular or mechanical. Then, when I was diagnosed with Parkinson's, I was finally given the reason. I now understand that no one can sing with Parkinson's disease. No matter how hard you try. And in my case, I can't sing a note.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The attraction of power is heady, addictive. And as we know from real life, it can be a disease. A horrific disease.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly increase the accuracy of the data. This will ultimately help us understand the role of genetic variations in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Breast cancer isn't one disease - it's probably four or five different types, and without knowing what type a person has, you can't optimize treatment for them.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each form of Alzheimer's disease should perturb different brain networks and so influence the concentration of different proteins that can be measured in the blood.
- Biotechnology
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
- Edgar
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All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to show the world that there is more to Africa than poverty, hunger, and disease.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm giving life lessons and tips on how to take care of your emotional heart, because heart disease is the number-one killer in America.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
With all of the holiday cheer in the air, it's easy to overlook the ingredients in the foods. Ingredients such as salt, sugar, and fat - all of which leads to diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, heart disease, and cancer.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.
- Humility
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- Nov 07, 2020
A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in bed. I couldn't speak. To have it called 'fatigue' is a gross misnomer.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020