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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
- First Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
- Princess
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want my mom on 'Scream Queens'. She could play someone who is convinced she's Princess Leila. That could be her disease, and then as a plot twist, we could find out that she actually is Princess Leila.
- Immune
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have read many studies out of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and they demonstrated that Vitamin E, Co-Q-10, and Fish Oil could protect the immune system of athletes and prevent disease.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
A foundation representing firefighters who die in the line of duty is calling for Congress to strip the Centers for Disease Control of its role investigating firefighter deaths.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
AIDS is a very, very, very vicious disease, particularly in the black community.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal with them and what can we learn from them. How can they become blessings to society, as a life threatening disease is to an individual, by teaching us about the meaning of our life and existence?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their lives are so troubled, and their bodies are getting them out of here.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The doctor I would want for myself or for anyone else I cared about would be one who understands that disease is more than just a clinical entity; it is an experience and a metaphor, with a message that must be listened to.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no cure for prions. They are a protein-based disease that, among other things, targets and transforms your brain. The symptoms reveal themselves differently in each host, and you might go months or you might go years before you realize you're infected.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
- Nov 07, 2020
Talking is the disease of age.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020