Disease Quotes - Page 17

• The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sympathy, Grief, Bravery

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.122

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• The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Health, Perfect, Soul

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• Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Madness, Caught, Contagious

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• If people can talk about having breast cancer, why can't people who have mental illness talk about mental illness? Until we're able to do that, we're not going to be treated with the same kind of respect for our diseases as other people.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Cancer, People, Able

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.

  Anita Roddick

  Real, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I'm not saying you need to become a spokesperson for every cause your character goes through, but it's important to absolutely do the best job we can in portraying a disease, and all the crap that goes with it.

  Monica Potter

  Jobs, Character, Best Job

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can ultimately lead to the deterioration and death of an individual, destructive criticism kills the soul of the person but leaves the body walking around.

  Brian Tracy

  Cancer, Heart, Soul

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• They figured out a way to control that hamburger disease. You dip the hamburger into the scalding hot coffee before eating.

  David Letterman

  Coffee, Hot, Hamburgers

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• It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!

  Pope Francis

  Gossip, Coward, Watches

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• To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Spiritual, Tears

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• Chess is not a game, but a disease.

  Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  Games, Chess

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• The claim of alternative practitioners to not treat disease labels but the whole patient...allows alternative practitioners to live in a fool's paradise of quackery where they believe themselves to be protected from any challenges and demands for evidence.

  Edzard Ernst

  Believe, Challenges, Alternatives

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• Standing on "tip toe", one stands not firmly. Straining in stride, one cannot walk far. Flaunting of deeds, one is unfavorably noticed. Being self-righteous, one is not respected. Boasting of self, one's merit is unrecognized. Glorifying of self, one loses the opportunity for greatness. From the viewpoint of Tao These represent imperfect Te, Valued as are filth or disease.

  Laozi

  Opportunity, Greatness, Self

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• Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

  Charles Fourier

  Civilization, Vices, Viruses

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• The problem with heart disease is the first symptom is often fatal.

  Michael Phelps

  Heart, Firsts, Problem

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• The beautiful disease and The government falls along the weed rooms flesh along the weed government.

  William S. Burroughs

  Beautiful, Weed, Fall

  Sinclair Simon Maurice Beiles, William S. Burroughs (1960). “Minutes to Go”

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• So don't get cynical. Cynicism didn't put a man on the moon. Cynicism has never won a war, or cured a disease, or built a business, or fed a young mind. Cynicism is a choice. And hope will always be a better choice.

  Barack Obama

  War, Moon, Men

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• To prevent disease or to cure it, the power of Truth, of divine Spirit, must break down the dream of the material senses.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Dream, Spirit, Breaking Down

  Mary Baker Eddy (2007). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• I realise that man, in his imperfection, can commit innumerable errors - but to devote myself deliberately to errors, that is something I cannot do. I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie. Our epoch, in the next 200 years, will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity. My regret will have been that I could not behold its demise.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Regret, Lying

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• This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

  Linus Torvalds

  Confused, Thinking, Idiot

  Message to usability@gnome.org mailing list, mail.gnome.org. December 12, 2005.

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• 1,000 cows in the U.S. are alive at night and dead in the morning. These cows on the ground are ground into feed, making their fellows not only carnivores but cannibals. Europe after Mad Cows' Disease has banned this practice. The U.S has not yet.

  Howard Lyman

  Morning, Night, Europe

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• We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become perfect, when there will be no disease, nor death, nor unhappiness, nor wickedness. That is a very good idea, a very good motive power to inspire and uplift the ignorant. But if we think for a moment, we shall find on the very face of it that it cannot be so. How can it be, seeing that good and evil are the obverse and reverse of the same coin? How can you have good without evil at the same time?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Country, Believe

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• Jesus has given you the right to use His name. That name can break the power of disease, the power of the adversary. That name can stop disease and failure from reigning over you. There is no disease that has ever come to man which this name cannot destroy.

  E. W. Kenyon

  Jesus, Men, Names

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• What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

  Rene Dubos

  Men, Mind, Body

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• Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Listening, Complaining, Germs

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