Disease Quotes - Page 12

• Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.

  Tacitus

  Operations, Remedy

  "Complete Works of Tacitus".

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• Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

  Aristotle

  Science, Law, Medicine

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• They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical, Exercise

  Republic III.405.D

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• From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.

  Juvenal

  Flocks, Whole

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• Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Light, Publicity, Being The Best

  Other People's Money ch. 5 (1914) See RalphWaldo Emerson 42

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• Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

  Karl Marx

  Medicine, Doubt, Medical

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• There are some remedies worse than disease.

  Sara Shepard

  Health, Remedy

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• I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.

  Teri Garr

  "Multiple Sclerosis". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 2, 2004.

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• Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

  John Tillotson

  Gratitude, Evil, Affliction

  John Tillotson (1696). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith”, p.104

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• Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be an abnormality of temperament or form (structure). Symptom is a manifestation of some abnormal state in the body. It may be harmful as a colic pain or harmless as the flushing of cheeks in peripneumonia.

  Avicenna

  Pain, Health, Abnormal

  Avicenna (1999). “The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)”, Abjad Book Designers & Builders

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• Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws as apply to the living body at all times, from the first moment until death.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Life, Science, Law

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• Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.

  Bill Jenkins

  Alzheimer's, Battle, Finals

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• Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Oysters, Hollywood, Pearls

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• I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

  Aeschylus

  Hate, Traitor, Disloyalty

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• The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

  David Byrne

  Marijuana, Smoking, Trying

  "Shock pictures to scare smokers" by David Gow, James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2004.

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• Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

  Michael J. Fox

  Cancer, Health, Science

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• It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

  Henry Miller

  Unique, Egalitarianism, Vices

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.49, New Directions Publishing

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• Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Latin, War, America

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• Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

  Ben Jonson

  Music, Mean, Common

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Eyery man out of his humor. Cynthia's revels. The poetaster”, p.428

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• I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

  Deborah Cox

  People, Vision, Dying

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• Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.

  Vittorio Gassman

  Character, Acting, Actors

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• The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

  Alexander Pope

  Strength, Growth, Length

  Alexander Pope (1849). “Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People”, p.185

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• Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs.

  Jean-Martin Charcot

  Health, Fitness Motivational, Reality

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• A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Self, Civilization, Advice

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• Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

  Ovid

  Mind

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