Disease Quotes - Page 5

• Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

  Alice Hamilton

  Illinois, Occupation, Legislation

  Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.92, Read Books Ltd

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• I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

  Jim Doyle

  Children, Suffering, Important

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• But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day.

  Dan Lipinski

  Cells, Blood, Great Day

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• I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Thinking, Trying, Accepting

  "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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• I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

  Vance Havner

  Tired, Years, Alcohol

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• The origin and the causes of disease are far too recondite for the human mind to unravel them.

  Giorgio Baglivi

  Science, Mind, Causes

  Introduction to De Praxi Medica

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• Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help himself in diseases, and be able to understand and to judge what physicians say and what they administer to his body, being versed in each of these matters to a degree reasonable for a layman.

  Hippocrates

  Health, Intelligent, Men

  Hippocrates (1979). “Hippocrates”

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• There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doe, Cures, Theory

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2781, Delphi Classics

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• Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.

  Ovid

  Body, Sickness, Ventilation

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• My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

  Victor Borge

  Mother, Dad, Father

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• Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

  Ramakrishna

  House, Soul, Body

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.

  Clifford Allbutt

  Health, Thinking, Development

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• First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

  Daniel Nathans

  Mutation, Firsts, Genes

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• The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Cells, Citizens, Body

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• No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

  John Ruskin

  Photography, Done, Literature

  John Ruskin (1908). “Complete Works of John Ruskin”

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• The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Want, Hypothyroidism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.287, Harvard University Press

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• Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

  Neil Gaiman

  Firsts, Literature, Sexually

  "Death Talks About Life". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1994.

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• Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

  Edvard Munch

  Angel, Artist, Insanity

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• What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

  Paracelsus

  Physicians, Cures, Alleviate

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.84, Princeton University Press

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• A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

  Susan Sontag

  Death, Memorial, Dying

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• The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Motivational, Fitness

  Aphorism

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• For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

  Aeschylus

  Friendship, Trust, No Friends

  "Prometheus Bound". Play by Aeschylus,

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• As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

  Adelle Davis

  Motivational, Health, Two

  Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”

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• Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

  Arnold Sommerfeld

  Children, Childhood, Youth

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• Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that is going to solve it. Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do. If anyone ever cures cancer, it will be a guy with a science degree. Or a woman with a science degree.

  Bill Bryson

  Cancer, Science, Thinking

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