Disease Quotes - Page 26

• I like to think of making cancer a chronic disease rather than focus just on curing cancer.

  Laurie Glimcher

  Cancer, Thinking, Focus

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• HIV/AIDS from converted from a lethal disease into a chronic disease because basic scientists' fundamental research was done that illuminated aspects of that virus and allowed the generation of therapies like antiretroviral therapies. And so now HIV/AIDS is not a lethal disease, it is a chronic disease.

  Laurie Glimcher

  Viruses, Hiv, Generations

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• Hepatitis C was a devastating disease but because fundamental research was done in hepatitis C, it is now curable. It is now absolutely curable with new medications. So this is transformative.

  Laurie Glimcher

  Fundamentals, Done, Research

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• What happened in the 80's was that all the men died of AIDS. That was a particularly depressing time because so many people passed away and it was a very desperate and lonely time, so I think a lot of people felt that we were somehow, unreceived. Not only by the disease but also by the public image of the disease. It really gave homophobia a real shot in the arm and changed the way people viewed gays, queers. It became an entirely different atmosphere.

  Margaret Cho

  Lonely, Depressing, Real

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• I really do think cancer will largely be a solved problem. I think most of the infectious diseases like malaria - our foundation is very involved - once we're finishing polio eradication, then starting up this malaria eradication, and getting that done as fast as we can.

  Bill Gates

  Cancer, Thinking, Starting Up

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• There is a social contract in "Fight Club" and in "Choke" where the protagonist has deceived a whole bunch of people. In "Choke" it's all of these people who think that they've saved his life, and really care about him because they've embraced him and they've been his saviors. In "Fight Club" it's all of these people who are dying of various diseases, and they thought that Edward Norton was also dying so they allowed him really strong pent-up emotions.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Strong, Fighting, Thinking

  "Chuck Palahnuik On 'Choke'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

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• To something that looks very different. The thing to understand here is that Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, they're not the disease and they're not the symptom of the disease. They are the beta test of a cure for the perspective of the people.

  Ben Domenech

  People, Perspective, Different

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• AI systems will enable doctors to diagnose diseases and treat people better, so blocking that progress is probably one of the worst things you can do for making the world better.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Block, Doctors, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Thinking, Healthy, Environment

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• Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Fields, Problem, Natural

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• Holman's world is a worst case scenario but it's healthy to examine extreme possibilities. If the technology that is used for genetic enrichment in Genus had been distributed equitably, across society, it could have been nirvana, a great world where people don't fear the diseases that we die from. The problems that arrive are more to do with resource hording than technology itself.

  Jonathan Trigell

  Technology, Worst Case Scenario, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It was long assumed that heart disease manifested the same in men and women. But Dr. Legato found that men may experience the classic symptoms of chest pain that radiates down the left arm. Women often have symptoms including shortness of breath, nausea or vomiting, and back or jaw pain. A gender-neutral approach left many women under-diagnosed and under-treated and as a result many women died needlessly.

  Jed Diamond

  Pain, Heart, Men

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• You know, no one should be marginalized in society when it comes to health. And, you know, we have - as a foundation, we have tried to champion those people [sex workers, needle users, intravenous drug users, prostitutes] and be by - be by their side and say, listen, these people cannot be forgotten. If you forget about them, then the disease is never going to go away.

  Elton John

  People, Champion, Going Away

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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• And the stigma hasn't really changed that much in 31 years. You are still getting people - it's a shame-based disease. It's based on sexual transmission. And it's still shame-based. And until people feel strong enough and feel loved enough to actually open up and say, listen, I'm HIV-positive, then we are facing an uphill battle.

  Elton John

  Strong, Years, People

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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• You know, it's a very treatable disease. You shouldn't feel ashamed. But I'm afraid that's carried on very much so from the first days of AIDS, when it was basically a gay disease. And then, of course, you know, it affected everybody.

  Elton John

  Gay, Firsts, Aids

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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• I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn't attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it's not about waging a war against everybody's disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, War, Diagnosis

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

  John Darnielle

  Children, Tired, Life Is Hard

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• The relief of suffering is a great good. The curing of illness and disease - these are great human goods. This is the mission of medicine.

  Michael Sandel

  Medicine, Suffering, Relief

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do not argue that nature is sacrosanct in the sense that we must never tamper with nature. That would disempower, really, all of medicine. That would mean that we can't combat dread diseases - malaria, polio, all of which are given by nature, if one thinks about it.

  Michael Sandel

  Mean, Thinking, Medicine

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My argument is not that we must never intervene in nature. My argument is that there is a moral difference between intervention for the sake of health, to cure or prevent disease, and intervention for the sake of achieving a competitive edge for our kids in a consumer society.

  Michael Sandel

  Kids, Differences, Sake

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• "Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows across - permeates - the boundaries of the self.

  Laura Mullen

  Italian, Self, Flow

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The boundary between expert and amateur was an imposed social-cultural "protection" which actually exposed a number of women to a fatal disease, because decaying matter, as the fireman said of fire (cited in the book's final piece, "Torch Song") "ain't got no rules on it."

  Laura Mullen

  Song, Book, Fire

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Though we don't have a cure for cancer we at least have stopped being too ashamed to even say the name of the disease - and the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic is edifying, isn't it? Shame shuts down productive thinking, and I'd like to open the doors. It's a first step.

  Laura Mullen

  Cancer, Thinking, Epidemics

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We give each other a wide berth even if we have the flu, let alone... So, I think that's part of the stigma that people who have diseases suffer. It's almost infectious... if somebody is closer to death, they're almost a bad omen and I think that's terrible.

  Peter Morgan

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

  Malachy McCourt

  Excuse, Said, Explanation

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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