Disease Quotes - Page 31

• If we could do something that enhances the body's immune system here on Earth, it would be a tremendous step forward in the fight against disease and cancer and other things.

  John Glenn

  Cancer, Fighting, Steps

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

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• Concerning B12, 39% of Americans have a B12 deficiency yet only 1% of Americans are vegan. How can this be a vegan issue? And if nearly everyone in America is sick or has died from a disease, yet only 1% is vegan, how can sickness be a vegan problem?

  Gary Yourofsky

  America, Issues, Sick

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• You go into a hospital now, it's dangerous. We can get diseases that can't be dealt with, that are moving around the hospital. A lot of that traces back to industrial meat production. These are really serious threats, all over the place.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Meat, Serious

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Violence [in Palestina] is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers. Therefore, the first responsibility is to put an end to the occupation.

  Uri Avnery

  Responsibility, Occupation, Violence

  Source: progressive.org

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• Savant syndrome is not a disorder in the same way as autism is a disorder or dementia is a disorder. Savant syndrome are some conditions that are superimposed and grafted on to some underlying disability. So savant syndrome is not a disease or disorder in and of itself. It is a collection of characteristics, or symptoms, or behaviors that have grafted on to the underlying disability.

  Darold Treffert

  Autism, Way, Disability

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.

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• At 16, I got a part-time job selling double-glazing door to door. That was soul destroying but the worst part-time job I did was at university working on reception in a sexually transmitted disease clinic. Because no one else wanted to do it, they paid £8 an hour.

  Kate Thornton

  Jobs, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Doors

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• This is a diseased century. We diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic exactness, but whenever we applied the healing knife a new sore appeared. Our will was hard and pure, we should have been loved by the people, but they hate us. Why are we so odious and detested? We brought you truth and in our mouth it sounded like a lie. We brought you freedom, and it looks in our hands like a whip. We brought you the living life, and where our voice is heard the trees wither and there is a rustling of dry leaves. We brought you the promise of the future, but our tongue stammered and barked.

  Arundhati Roy

  Lying, Hate, Live Life

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Some of the old diseases that we think are gone - case in point, measles - are back, now that somebody has spread around, in a very wicked way, the idea that these inoculations were making children autistic. Now we're getting outbreaks that are killing children. The end result is, if you create a population that lacks immunity, and diseases are still there, you're going to get outbreaks and you're going to get death.

  Margaret Atwood

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Killers, Bigger

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Keep an eye on the weather, which is changing faster than predicted, and on the new diseases escaping or being made, even as we speak. It's a race between new tech and biosphere bankruptcy, I'd say.

  Margaret Atwood

  Eye, Race, Escaping

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in a woman's wages later in life. Education lowers the risk of disease and decreases the likelihood that a child will fall into violence and crime. And a child born to a literate mother is 50 percent more likely to survive past age five. No country has achieved sustained growth without at least 40 percent literacy for its adults.

  Shakira

  Mother, Country, Children

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• The Hindu, the Oriental, says that the physical is but the shadow of the Eternal, of the Truth; and he says 'In order to understand the Truth, I must let the shadow go, and not concern myself with it, but with the understanding of the Eternal.' So he does not concern himself with the physical. He is more concerned with the quality of mind and heart. Hence there is disease, there is disorder, and there is chaos and neglect and the gradual running down of the physical.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Running, Heart, Order

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• The bottom half of humanity is living in severe poverty; not all of them are malnourished or severely deprived now, but they are extremely vulnerable to even small upsets in their income or in the prices they face of basic necessities, and when something like this happens, they can be thrown off kilter in terms of a disease of a family member or a change in food prices; anything like that can throw them into destitution.

  Thomas Pogge

  Upset, Humanity, Income

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• [Barack Obama] says at one point, "[Jimmy] Carter, [Bill] Clinton and I suffer from," what he called, "the policy wonk's disease."

  Ron Suskind

  Suffering, Bills, Clinton

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I generally avoid over-population arguments. But there's no question we're in population overshoot. The catch is we're not going to do anything about it. There will be no policy. The usual suspects: starvation, war, disease, will drive the population down. There's little more to say about that really, and it's certainly an unappetizing discussion, but it's probably the truth. In any case, we're in overshoot and we face vast resource scarcities.

  James Howard Kunstler

  War, Faces, Usual

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• Like Joe Biden and so many other Americans, I've lost people I love deeply to cancer. I've heard often from those whose loved ones are suffering from Alzheimer's, addiction, and other debilitating diseases. Their heartbreak is real, and so we have a responsibility to respond with real solutions.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Cancer, Responsibility

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The greatest achievement of my life is enduring a disease that nearly killed me. I came out of it a better person. It's my one great accomplishment - more so than anything else I've done.

  John Lydon

  Accomplishment, Achievement, Done

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• HIV is no respecter of persons. Any of us could find ourselves with the disease, and then what? We tend to stigmatize as a way to deceive ourselves about our invincibility. But it is a delusion.

  Kwame Dawes

  Hiv, Way, Deceiving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't regard fundamentalism in the United States or in Europe as a terrible threat, partly because it is a self-curing disease. The younger generation drifts away, so fundamentalists always have to recruit to keep up with themselves.

  Ninian Smart

  Self, Europe, United States

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

  Grace Abbott

  Children, Labor Day, Together

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• Cancer is an emotional disease.

  Marina Abramovic

  Cancer, Emotional

  "Film Explores Marina Abramovic's Longest Work, 'The Artist Is Present' (PHOTOS, INTERVIEW)". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.

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• We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

  Madeleine Albright

  Fighting, People, Democracy

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• I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled out his patient history I noticed I had a lot of similar symptoms. I mentioned it to the doctor, and he ran blood work and finally an ultrasound of my thyroid.

  Kim Alexis

  Son, Doctors, Filled Out

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• The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.

  Chester A. Arthur

  People, Attention, Purpose

  Chester A. Arthur (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

  James A. Baldwin

  Falling In Love, Gay, Boys

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