Disease Quotes

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  One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Education, Discworld, Simile

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

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• One way of preventing disease is worth fifty ways of curing it.

  Trevor Howard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Health

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• People don't die of old age, they die of diseases that accompany old age, and they are preventable.

  Deepak Chopra

  People, Age, Accompany

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• Most people believe that aging is painful and we know that pain is from diseases that are preventable, not from aging.

  Deepak Chopra

  Pain, Believe, People

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• Cure the disease and kill the patient.

  Francis Bacon

  Patient, Cures

  Essays "Of Friendship" (1625)

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• The medicine increases the disease.

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Medicine, Increase

  "Aeneis (Aeneid)". Poem by Virgil (Book XII, line 46), 29-19 BC.

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• Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

  Richard Steele

  Mind, Flattery, Pernicious

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1832). “The Spectator: with notes and general index, from the London stereotype edition ...”, p.346

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• Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.

  Bob Edwards

  Children, Parent, Quality

  "Science friction", www.theguardian.com. September 21, 1999.

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• Disease often comes with a smiling face.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Faces, Smiling Faces

  "The Sun Watches the Sun" by Dejan Stojanovic, Sunce sebe gleda, Književna reč, Beograd, "Benefactors," (p. 110), 1999.

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• Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Health, Medicine, Dishes

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

  Hippocrates

  Healing, Health, Medicine

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• He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

  Thomas Fuller

  Fitness, Health, Medicine

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• Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

  Marian Anderson

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.241, University of Illinois Press

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• The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

  Mother Teresa

  Butterfly, Being In Love, Helping Others

  Quoted in the Observer, 3 Oct 1971.

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• Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

  William Golding

  Childhood, Sickness, Grows

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• This long disease, my life.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Science, Long

  "An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" l. 131 (1735)

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• Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Strength, Disappointment, Age

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• It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

  William Osler

  Health, Practice Of Medicine, Important

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• The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

  William Osler

  Practice Of Medicine, Physicians, Medical

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• Disease is a vital expression of the human organism.

  Georg Groddeck

  Expression, Humans, Organisms

  Georg Groddeck (2015). “The Book of the It”, p.213, Ravenio Books

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• The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.

  Edward Dyson

  Nervous, Worst, Ability

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• The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease.

  Robert Koch

  Science, Foundation, Culture

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• The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people

  Judith Light

  People, Purging, Magnificent

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• The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization

  Franz Boas

  Civilization, Corny, Modern

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