Disease Quotes - Page 10

• The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

  Ashley Montagu

  Health, Science, Doctors

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• There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

  William Osler

  Men, Medicine, Important

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.61, Ravenio Books

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• Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

  Adam Schiff

  War, Blessed, Compassion

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• Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.

  John Simon

  Cancer, Stress, Cells

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• In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

  Ike Skelton

  Cancer, Heart, Alzheimer's

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• We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans.

  Louise Slaughter

  Responsibility, Cells, Research

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• We had a week off in the middle of shooting, but as soon as everyone stopped, we all went down with six different types of flu and other unmentionable diseases.

  Johnny Vegas

  Different, Shooting, Flu

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• The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

  Simone Weil

  Tuberculosis, Poison, Soil

  Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

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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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• And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

  Thomas More

  Change, Fall, Symptoms

  Thomas More (2010). “Utopia”, p.44, Bibliolis Books

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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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• We are a caring nation, and our values should also guide us on how we harness the gifts of science. New medical breakthroughs bring the hope of cures for terrible diseases and treatments that can improve the lives of millions. Our challenge is to make sure that science serves the cause of humanity instead of the other way around.

  George W. Bush

  Caring, Science, Challenges

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• It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good to be true that someone will pay you for enjoying yourself. I've been very fortunate that my work led to useful drugs for a variety of serious illnesses. The thrill of seeing people get well who might otherwise have died of diseases like leukemia, kidney failure, and herpes virus encephalitis cannot be described in words.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  Get Well, Hard Work, Serious Illness

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• We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

  Michel de Montaigne

  War, Ambition, Ambitious

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• Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.

  Shannon Fife

  Baby, Children, Humorous

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• A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more than one great country. Blight to destroy crops, Anthrax to slay horses and cattle, Plague to poison not armies but whole districts - such are the lines along which military science is remorselessly advancing.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Horse, Military

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.220, Da Capo Press

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• EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Determination, Heart, Eye

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.66, University of Georgia Press

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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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• 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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• Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.

  Carey Mulligan

  Character, Unique, People

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• If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Funny, Broken Heart

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• You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.

  Cicely Saunders

  Life, Death, Christian

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• It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take my life." "This cancer can't defeat me." "No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny."

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Disappointment

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• When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.

  Stuart Scott

  Death, Courage, Art

  "ESPN Sportscaster Stuart Scott Dies At 49". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. January 4, 2015.

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• There is a difference between a person who is dying and a person who is suicidal. I do not want to die. I am dying.

  Brittany Maynard

  Suicide, Cancer, Suicidal

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