- Medicine
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother passed away of complications of dementia. As you get older, it really makes you realize how many people are touched by this disease.
- Epidemic
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly, nutrition is great. I was a vegan, so being an athlete and a vegan certainly sounds like it would be the right thing to prevent something like heart disease, but it's highly genetic.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
The depiction of Africa has changed in the media in that it is not always poverty, disease, and so on.
- Discrimination
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- Nov 07, 2020
We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
My cousin was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, and it's just a really tragic disease, and as of yet there is no cure, so I feel I want to get it as much publicity to do it as I can.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
- Blood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.
- Heart Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020