Disease Quotes - Page 27

• There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.

  Malachy McCourt

  Recovery, Incurable Disease, Alcoholism

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

  Malachy McCourt

  Father, Alcoholics, Deserted

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

  Malachy McCourt

  Awful, Dread, Alcoholism

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not necessarily make us repent. The essence of repentance is that we cannot be repentant until we confront our own self righteousness with God's righteousness.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  War, Adversity, Self

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• Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases.

  Smiley Blanton

  Fear, Subtle, Humans

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• When the liver is diseased, the eyesight fails; when the kidneys are diseased, the hearing is adversely affected. The disease is not visible, but its effects are. Therefore, enlightened people, wishing to be free from obvious faults, first get rid of hidden faults.

  Zicheng Hong

  People, Taoism, Wish

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• Insulin resistance is the basis of all of the chronic diseases of aging, because the disease itself is actually aging.

  Ron Rosedale

  Resistance, Wellness, Aging

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• What you have to do if you are going to treat any disease is get to the root of the disease.

  Ron Rosedale

  Roots, Wellness, Treats

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• First we have to understand what doubts and fears are, how anxiety and doubts and fears come about. They are a psychic disease.

  John Assaraf

  Psychics, Anxiety, Doubt

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• It's remarkable she [Venus Williams] plays at all, given her Sjögren's syndrome [an autoimmune disorder that can cause joint pain]. She's back, winning tournaments. She didn't allow society to tell her, "You have this disease; you can't do that anymore." I look at her, like, "She's not playing at 100 percent. You are. You don't have excuses." Knowing what she went through helped me try to be a more positive person.

  Serena Williams

  Pain, Winning, Play

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• People are talking about immigration like it is a disease. In fact migrants pay more in than they get out.

  Liz Kendall

  Talking, People, Migrants

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I remember Anthony Perkins saying, "Real is not necessarily interesting." So real is not enough. But what happens as an actor is that you're really trained to listen and to be open and have empathy. It's such a natural consequence that you end up being more political. You can empathize with the mother whose kids are going to be sent to Iraq, or you can emphasize with the mother who is losing their child to a disease. How could you not then be active? So you're automatically drawn to that aspect in the rest of your life.

  Susan Sarandon

  Mother, Children, Real

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• Read a textbook. It will tell you. These are the things for instance on the African continent that will contribute to immune deficiency, various tropical diseases because of poor infrastructure, general levels of poverty don’t get treated. Syphilis untreated or not properly treated, which as it happens is a big problem as I hear, gets treated, the symptoms disappear but in fact… it … that impacts on the immune system. You’ve got to deal with these things.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Impact, Syphilis, Poverty

  Interview with Lionel Barber, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

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• There are scarcities in drinking water when you pollute the groundwater with nitrates. There is a scarcity in diversity when you create huge cornfields with the same strain of corn so that when one disease strikes - which happened in the United States in the 70s - all the cornfields in the country are wiped out. That was the first time the U.S. realized the value of diversity in agriculture and began to discuss genetic resources and their conservation.

  Vandana Shiva

  Country, Drinking, Agriculture

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• When they got here, when they successfully emigrated - and not everybody that came through Ellis Island was accepted. If you were sick you were not allowed in. If you had any kind of a disease, we were in the process of trying to wipe out all these diseases. We did that by keeping people who had them out of the country. You might look at it today as, "Wow, that was really mean." No. It was putting America first. It was putting the American people first, and it was a realization that we can't take everybody.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Mean, Islands

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The number of human deaths due to hardening of the arteries and other similar diseases suggests that human beings were not meant to eat animals; our bodies are unable to digest the animal fat effectively and it ends up stored in our blood vessels, not to mention our waist lines, buttocks and thighs!

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Blood, Numbers

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Arctic-dwelling Eskimos have no choice but to eat large amounts of meat and animal fat. But let's get our facts straight: according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Eskimos also have the highest incidences of heart disease and osteoporosis in the world and, in general, short life spans. Perhaps that is something to consider when we are faced with the choice of what to eat for dinner and unlike Eskimos most of us do have choices.

  Sharon Gannon

  Short Life, Heart, Animal

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• In fact, we would know ourselves that we are not meant to be meat eaters, and we would not have allowed ourselves to become conditioned to meat eating in the first place, if the effects of meat eating were felt right away. But since heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, etc. usually take many years to develop, we are able to separate them from their cause (or contributing factors) and go on happily eating an animal-based diet.

  Sharon Gannon

  Cancer, Heart, Animal

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• The way we treat animals is the root cause of all the human suffering in the world, from poverty, starvation, disease, and war to lack of clean air and water, not to mention all the varied forms of human emotional and spiritual suffering.

  Sharon Gannon

  Spiritual, War, Animal

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.

  Tom Robbins

  Drama, Hands, Dysfunction

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I actually start my day with a cup of warm lemon water with cayenne pepper. It jump-starts your detoxifying system in your body, jump-starts your liver, helps you eliminate the food that you ate the day before, and also just gets your body in an alkaline state ready to ward off disease.

  Vani Hari

  Water, Body, Cups

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• When a body is in an alkaline state, it avoids disease, but when it's in an acidic state - where you're eating a lot of processed foods, meat, dairy - you're not going to have that hydration in your body, and you're not going to have that ability to fight off disease, and it's going to impact your immune system and the inflammation in your body too.

  Vani Hari

  Fighting, Impact, Hydration

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• The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy.

  Ani DiFranco

  Fundamentals, Imbalance, Social

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think integrative medicine, something I've pioneered, is the way of the future. Its great promise is that it can reduce healthcare costs by shifting the whole focus of healthcare away from disease management to health promotion and prevention. They can do that two ways: first, by focusing attention on lifestyle medicine, which is very deficient. And second, by bringing into the mainstream treatments that are lower cost because they are not dependent on expensive technology.

  Andrew Weil

  Thinking, Technology, Medicine

  "Dr. Andrew Weil: On Changing the Current Paradigm in Healthcare". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Addictions and mental disorders are like a disease, and they need treatment.

  Syesha Mercado

  Addiction, Needs, Disorder

  "American Idol’s Syesha Mercado: On Honesty, Acceptance, and Being Present". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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