Rare Diseases Quotes

• This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.

  Josette Sheeran

  Health, Disease, Hunger

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• Cancer is really a slew of rare diseases. Lung cancer has 700 sub-types, breast cancer has 30,000 mutations which means that every cancer in its own right is a rare disease. Sharing data globally in this context is really important from a life-threatening perspective.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Cancer, Mean, Data

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• Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Giving, Healthy, Disease

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• If you want to maximize your expected utility, you try to save the world and the future of intergalactic civilization instead of donating your money to the society for curing rare diseases and cute puppies.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Cute, Civilization, Trying

  "The Singularity: Humanity's Last Invention?". "All Things Considered" with Martin Kaste, www.npr.org. January 11, 2011.

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• Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Party, Recovery, Disease

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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