- 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
Early in my career, I was galvanized by a disease that ravaged my country and many others around the world: malaria.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Health is both the foundation of my academic and professional careers and a personal passion. I know first-hand the important role health security plays in protecting lives and preventing the spread of disease.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yoga can get at the roots of issues that cause behaviors leading to obesity, heart disease, and stress.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we harness the ability to turn connections into data and then into knowledge, we can empower citizens, patients, and professionals to prevent disease, avoid or better manage health crises, and even save lives.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it's in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Center for Disease Control's bio-monitoring program has found that the majority of Americans carry residues of BPA in their bodies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If an autoimmune disease can create symptoms that look exactly like schizophrenia, that raises the question, what is schizophrenia? And are there forms of schizophrenia that are caused by other types of autoimmune disease?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Preconceived judgments. I think we're all guilty of it. I judge other people even though I get judged myself. It's such a disease and gets spread so much through social media.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plants are both friend and enemy, source of health and, in certain instances, triggers of disease.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm now convinced that all arthritis, most coronary artery disease, acne, eczema, and the autoimmune diseases are all caused or worsened by lectins.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf at 57. He and my mother had always played tennis - a couples' game of mixed doubles and tennis bracelets and Love-Love. But in mourning, Dad turned Job-like to golf, a game of frustration and golf widows and solitary hours on the range.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forget about war or disease or poverty. The apocalypse is when America's elected president is no longer supervised by the unelected ruling establishment.
- Awareness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've become a representative of the American Diabetes Association, and then I just became national spokesman for the American Heart Association for a campaign called The Heart of Diabetes, which brings the awareness of cardio-vascular disease to diabetics.
- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.
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- Nov 07, 2020