Communicable Diseases Quotes

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  Misery is a communicable disease.

  Martha Graham

  Attitude, Disease, Emotion

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• There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

  Benjamin Spock

  Funny, Mother, Children

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• A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Spiritual, Health, Medicine

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.166

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• There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we've had dying from the tsunami.

  David Nabarro

  Dying, Disease, Chance

  "Scarborough Country", www.nbcnews.com. January 3, 2005.

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• The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

  Voltaire

  Art, Get Well Soon, Health

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  Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Motivational, Sports, Congratulations

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• Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

  Hippocrates

  Philosophical, Health, Disease

  "Aphorisms". 1:6,

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• We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

  Thomas Browne

  Death, Disease, Cures

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 9

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• Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Cancer, Osteoporosis, Smoking

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• If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.

  Martha Graham

  Depression, Giving, Faces

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• Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.

  Terry Pratchett

  Education, Disease, Discworld

  "Hogfather" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 24), March 2008.

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• All diseases run into one, old age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Funny Relationship, Hair

  Journals

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• All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

  Thomas Mann

  Expression, Disease And Death, Interest In Life

  'The Magic Mountain' (1924) ch. 6, sect. 7

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• It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

  Virginia Woolf

  Birthday, Running, People

  1922 Jacob's Room, ch.6.

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• Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.

  Faith Sullivan

  Differences, Disease, Awful

  Faith Sullivan (2011). “The Cape Ann: A Novel”, p.136, Broadway Books

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• Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Disease, Resentment, Should

  Cynthia Ozick (1966). “Trust”

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• Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jobs, Disease, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.38, Random House

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