- People
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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
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bravest - scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft-repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger, and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not going to help the country to be subsidizing uneconomical forms of energy - whether you call them 'green,' 'renewable' or whatever. In that case, the cure is worse than the disease.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is often difficult to definitively link a specific instance of disease to one particular cause, like water pollution. Even when tests show that drinking water is polluted, it can be hard to pinpoint the source of the contamination.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
- Mercy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the prospect of a bad result gets the heart racing - a plane crash, a terrible disease, a loss of 30 percent of your portfolio - most people will take strong steps to avoid it. They will pay too little attention to a comforting thought, which is that worst-case scenarios usually don't come to fruition.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try to do is kind of do it like 'House'; write down the symptom and write down the other symptoms. Try to work backwards to figure out what the problem is.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.
- Sensitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you really want to isolate a disease, then you have to isolate the people who carry it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life for me has always been about timing, and it was bad timing for that disease to hit me; it was time to exit stage.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Gamergate is just a symptom of a disease: a $90 billion global industry that was built by men for men.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020