- 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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by having cities. That's where they - all these problems come from.
- Examining
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
- Demolished
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
- Alive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poor diet and sedentary behaviour have led to an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related disease and a huge rise in chronic medical conditions.
- Civilization
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- Nov 07, 2020
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
- Remedy
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- Nov 07, 2020