Disease Quotes - Page 34

• I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Insanity, Human Condition, Alcoholics

  Mercedes McCambridge (1981). “The quality of mercy: an autobiography”, Crown

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• I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Believe, Vaccines, Needs

  "Jenny McCarthy on Autism and Vaccines". Interview with Jeffrey Kluger, content.time.com. April 1, 2009.

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• To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

  Nancy Mitford

  Love, Fall, Advice

  Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Heartbroken, Mad Cow Disease, Meat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.

  Mandy Moore

  Children, Men, Pneumonia

  "Remembering the Forgotten Killer" by Mandy Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.

  Mandy Moore

  Children, Pneumonia, Years

  "Remembering the Forgotten Killer" by Mandy Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, People, Age

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.

  Sarojini Naidu

  Men, India, Want

  Sarojini Naidu, Makarand R. Paranjape (1996). “Sarojini Naidu, selected letters, 1890s to 1940s”

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• Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Heart, Vegetarian Diet, Average

  "The Skinny on our Growing Girth" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. Sptember 26,2009.

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• I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Husband, Alzheimer's, Heartbreaking

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• An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Motivational, Atheist, Prayer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

  William Osler

  Life, Health, Law

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.189, Ravenio Books

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• Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.

  Carre Otis

  Anorexia, Demand, Arena

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• Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

  Mehmet Oz

  Thinking, Doctors, Medicine

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• I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

  Mehmet Oz

  Heart, Simple, People

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• Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in the delivery of services should have a strong sense of duty and work in a transparent, corruption-free, time-bound and accountable manner.

  Pratibha Patil

  Strong, Agency, Should Have

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• When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little bit about a lot of things, I didn't suffer the misconception that depression was all in my head or a mark of poor character. I knew it was a disease, and, like all diseases, was treatable.

  Jane Pauley

  Character, Years, Knowing

  "TAKE ONE STEP: Caring for Depression, with Jane Pauley". www.pbs.org. 2008.

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• Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive - and ultimately fatal - disease unless its course can be altered.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Alzheimer's, Epidemics, Years

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• It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cancer, Alzheimer's, Differences

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• I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult, and I decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces that I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.

  Terry Pratchett

  Alzheimer's, Insult, Kind

  "'A butt of my own jokes': Terry Pratchett on the disease that finally claimed him". www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2015.

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• The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.

  Terry Pratchett

  Boys, Games, Long

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• Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Girl, Country, Looks

  "Queen Rania: The 21st-Century Queen" by Jackie Spinner, www.glamour.com. November 1, 2010.

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• We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

  Christopher Reeve

  Time, Moving, Health

  Christopher Reeve Testimony, www.chrisreevehomepage.com. April 14, 1999.

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• If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.

  John Ritter

  Song, Three, Accepting

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• I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

  Tom Robbins

  Thinking, Aging, Ifs

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