- Grief
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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.
- Origins
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not about success. Whatever happens, it doesn't matter. I would like to not go bankrupt or get some incurable disease, but other than that, I'm just happy to keep going.
- Fleeing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we live in a culture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related to disease. We shouldn't always be fleeing hardship. Hardship also brings people together. We should welcome it.
- Aging
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- Nov 07, 2020
Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Synthetic biology can help address key challenges facing the planet and its population. Research in synthetic biology may lead to new things such as programmed cells that self-assemble at the sites of disease to repair damage.
- Kiss
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like Heather Graham. She did an interview and said, 'I didn't want to kiss Corey; I didn't want to catch his mononucleosis. He had a kissing disease.'
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I would write all the time. Novels, plays, and poems. It's like a disease - my life is filled with fantasies, and I have to write them all down.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to is to categorize them as, 'Oh, they're crazy,' to belittle the problem.
- Chronic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe evidence is overwhelming that chronic Lyme is a terrible, overwhelming disease, and we need to find ways to treat this. To say otherwise is an inaccurate and unscientific opinion.
- Pregnancy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, and colon and rectal cancers.
- Nov 07, 2020