- Civilized
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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
- Disability
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- Nov 07, 2020
Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
- Amazing Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a great disappointment as a leader in the biotech industry that with all the amazing things the drug industry has done in the last couple of decades, we have not made a single major advance, have not not developed a single new chemical entity approved for the treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would not have had the same personal commitment to Alzheimer's disease if it had not been for my mother and my upbringing.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing in Alzheimer's disease to remember, and we remember this all the time at Axovant, is we don't fully understand the way the actual underlying disease works.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our goal is to continue to build the pipeline to fight all aspects of disease for all forms of dementia.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
The medicine increases the disease.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.
- Situation
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you relate to a disease, you're afraid. When you relate to a person, there is compassion. You see someone that is like you, that could be like you. You can see yourself in that same situation.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020