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• AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.

  Luc Montagnier

  People, Support, Important

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• Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

  Rebecca Miller

  Ambition

  "Miller's own tale". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2003.

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• The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

  Ike Skelton

  Goal, Research, Common

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• Time is an herb that cures all Diseases.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Herbs, Cures, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

  Xavier Becerra

  Aggravation, Twenties, Deterioration

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• In Wisconsin, We're at the forefront of research that might one day bring cures for diseases like Parkinsons and Alzheimers, and we must seize its great potential.

  Jim Doyle

  Alzheimer's, One Day, Research

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• The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

  Agnes Repplier

  Past, Littles, Common

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• We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

  M. Scott Peck

  Causes, Deals, Physical Health

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Writing, School, Tuberculosis

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• The burden of disease falls on the poor.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Fall, Poor, Burden

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• Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease.

  Mary Ann Mobley

  Cures, Operations

  "Mary Ann Mobley: going public about a private disease". Saturday Evening Post Interview with Cory SerVaas, January 1, 1994.

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• In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Lying, Philosophical, Writing

  Thomas Sydenham, Robert Gordon Latham (1848). “The Works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.”, p.14

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• There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

  William Osler

  Humility, Clinicals

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.120, ACP Press

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• Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Publicity, Social, Remedy

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

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• If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Sad, Shrubs

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Love is a serious mental disease.

  Plato

  Love, Plato, Romance

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• The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

  Princess Diana

  Birthday, People, Feelings

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• The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

  Robert Frost

  Business, Drinking, Alcohol

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• I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

  Andy Warhol

  Funny, Dog, Art

  Andy Warhol, Bob Colacello (1979). “Andy Warhol's exposures”

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• Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

  John Ray

  Pleasure, Taxes

  English Proverbs

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• The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Flower, Fruit, Trunks

  "Giuseppe Riconosciuto". Part I, 1733.

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• But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

  Alexander Pope

  Disease And Death, Luxury, Succeed

  Alexander Pope (1819). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death”, p.88

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• Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental in-harmony.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Mind, Body, Moral

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 196, Science and Health, Chapter XIV. 20, 1922.

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• Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.

  Peter B. Lewis

  Father, Cities, Iron

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• I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or creating life for our convenience. And while we must devote enormous energy to conquering disease, it is equally important that we pay attention to the moral concerns raised by the new frontier of human embryo stem cell research. Even the most noble ends do not justify any means.

  George W. Bush

  Life, Mean, Science

  Remarks on Stem Cell Research, delivered 9 August 2001

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