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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
I started wearing wigs when I was younger and had a thyroid disease that made my hair fall out. It was devastating. I thought, 'I could either have an issue with this, or I could go to the store and buy a wig.' And then I fell in love with wearing them, and I stuck with it even after my hair came back.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.
- Civilization
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who claimed to be seeking to end poverty, disease and the slave trade.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm concerned about heart disease. I've raised money to fight heart disease; my dad died of it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have two cousins with juvenile diabetes. They both contracted the disease before the age of 5, and it was so heartbreaking watching them go through daily blood tests and injections. It is such a difficult disease to live with and requires constant attention; a tough thing to explain to a child.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have autoimmune disease, thyroid problems, and I've been diagnosed pre-diabetic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.
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- Nov 07, 2020