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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
- Heart Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it's so unexpected.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Brazil, the history of the interaction between blancos and indios - whites and Indians - often reads like an extended epitaph. Tribes were wiped out by disease and massacres; languages and songs were obliterated.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of other wealthy people feel the responsibility to take some of the wealth they've been given and give back: to give a lot of money to a particular cancer charity or to a group researching some particular disease or their alma mater. We haven't really found anything like that with Trump.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we have seen with Islamist extremism, whether it is in Mali or Somalia or Afghanistan, is that the disease is not necessarily the individual country. The disease is the Islamist extremism, and that's what we have to fight; that's the narrative that we have to beat.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no question that the mind-body connection is real, even if we can't quantify it. Hope is one of the greatest weapons we have to fight disease.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aging is just like any deterioration of the body. It fulfills every category of what we call a disease except one: it impacts more than half the population.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doctors will prescribe medicines for a particular disease but, as a side effect, those medications will work to prevent dozens of others.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020