- Man
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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
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't suffer from SCD myself, but I do carry the gene. This means that if I married another person who carried the gene, there would be a danger our children would suffer from the disease.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When your life is threatened, whether it's by human beings or by disease or whatever, you come to appreciate life.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.
- Decrepit
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- Nov 07, 2020
The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
- Diseases
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- Nov 07, 2020
Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in 1983, quarterback Tommy Kramer got hurt and the Minnesota Vikings traded for me. The plan was for me to play, but I got something called Graves' disease, an autoimmune disorder, and wound up on injured reserve.
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
- Means
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- Nov 07, 2020