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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
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The case for open markets, free trade, private investment and technology has never been stronger in development. Over the decades, this combination has driven down poverty, helped to tackle disease, and created jobs across the globe.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in the delivery of services should have a strong sense of duty and work in a transparent, corruption-free, time-bound and accountable manner.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is a serious mental disease.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cervical cancer doesn't discriminate by how much money you have. The disease affects so many - it's frightening.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020