- 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
- Dementia
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer's disease.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in normal cognitive function like memory and learning, as well as disease processes such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and autism.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
About six months after I had my little boy in April 2014, I ended up getting a kidney disease.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is becoming clear that many diseases - especially cancer - are highly complex and may respond better to a multi-drug approach which targets many different aspects of a disease process.
- Environmental Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
At least three studies, in the U.S., Canada and Sweden, have linked glyphosate exposure to the disease, and in 2015, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer found glyphosate to be a 'probable' cause of cancer in humans. California's state environmental protection agency has also declared it a probable carcinogen.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
College campuses are a focus of prevention efforts for meningococcal disease because of the increased incidence of the disease during adolescence and young adulthood, as well as transmission from crowded living conditions and social behaviors common among college students.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Individuals in very small groups are about the only thing that is free of the disease of the embedded growth obligation.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bipolar disorder is a scary disease, but it is manageable. And I feel blessed that I was able to get the right attention and the right medication to deal with my specific illness.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may act as an ancillary factor, but by itself, the mutation in tau doesn't give you Alzheimer's disease. This is not to say the tau is not very important. It may be important in propagating the disorder from one cell to another. But as a causal mechanism, the evidence is strongest for beta amyloid abnormalities.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could cure every disease known to man, and still, someone's going to hate you.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a lot of time researching dementia, read papers on the subject, and also found a lot of dementia diaries on the Internet which were a great help in getting an insight into the disease.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
- Nov 07, 2020
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
- Imagine
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- Nov 07, 2020