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• First, modify the patient's diet and lifestyle and only then, if these do not effect a cure, treat with medicinals and acupuncture.

  Sun Simiao

  Health, Medicine, Chinese

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• Love transforms and love cures;but,sometimes,love builds deadly traps and can end up destroying a person who had resolved to give him or herself completely.What is this complex feeling which,deep down,is the only reason we continue to live,struggle and improve?

  Paulo Coelho

  Struggle, Giving, Feelings

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• The cure might be worse than the problem

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Might, Problem

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different boy.' To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun.

  C. S. Lewis

  Nice, Boys, Different

  C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Helping Others, People, Drug

  Penelope Fitzgerald (2013). “Human Voices”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

  Haruki Murakami

  Death, Kindness, Losing A Loved One

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 04, 2012

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• Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.

  George Orwell

  Sane, Knows, Do You Know

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• Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days until I'm free and away from all these people and their sliding superficial lives brushing past one another gliding, gliding, gliding from life to death. For them there's hardly a change between the two.

  Lauren Oliver

  Past, Two, People

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.265, Hachette UK

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• Christianity is the best way to cure gayness — just get on your knees, take a swig of wine, and accept the body of a man into your mouth.

  Stephen Colbert

  Wine, Men, Mouths

  "Colbert Puts Marcus Bachmann’s Gay Therapy To Test With Heterosexual Accountability Buddy". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2011.

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• Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom.

  Lauren Oliver

  Finding Happiness, Way, Unhappiness

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.182, Hachette UK

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• They say that the cure for love will make me happy and safe forever. And I’ve always believed them. Until now. Now everything has changed. Now, I’d rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie

  Lauren Oliver

  Lying, Years, Forever

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• The cure for pain is in the pain.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Pain, Sufi Wisdom

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

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• In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Country, Lying

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.244, Pan Macmillan

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• Witches never existed, except in people’s minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in herbal cures and in folklore and in the wish to fly. Witches? We’re all witches in one way or another. Witches was the invention of mankind, son. We’re all witches beneath the skin.

  Ian Rankin

  Life, Son, Men

  Ian Rankin (1986). “The flood”, P D Meany Pub

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• What we are fighting isn't godlessness--this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines... that helps. When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.

  Abraham Verghese

  Country, Godly, Fighting

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.115, Random House India

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• The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Hatred, Perception

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Love You, Knives, Leeches

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• The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned.

  Michael J. Fox

  Inspirational, Believe, Fall

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• Somewhere fate laughs in her far-off country, because now I am the human and it is Grace I will lose again and again, immer wieder, always the same, every winter, losing more of her each year, unless I find a cure.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Country, Fate, Winter

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.569, Scholastic Inc.

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• We don’t need a cure,” the other zombie said. “That’s right,” Scapegrace nodded. “We’re happy the way we are.” “Happy with the power,” Scapegrace clarified. “Very happy, just the two of us, and there’s nothing wrong with us either. It’s very natural in fact. Nothing to be ashamed of—” “Thrasher,” said Scapegrace, “shut up.

  Derek Landy

  Two, Zombie, Needs

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• Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart. Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Memories, Heart

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth”, p.892, Bantam Classics

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• There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Evil, Good Man

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: History Lesson”, p.181, RosettaBooks

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• All you who are in love Aye and can not remove it I pity the pain that you endure. For experience lets me know That your hearts are filled with woe It's a woe that no mortal can cure. -"the Curragh of Kildare

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Pain, Heart, Woe

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• Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.

  Novalis

  Music, Disease, Problem

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• I have sought you out to cure me.' 'To cure you of what?' 'Of this cursed affliction.' 'I cannot cure stupidity.' Scapegrace frowned.

  Derek Landy

  Stupidity, Affliction, Cursed

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