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• A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Political, Bed, Maintaining

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.197, Courier Corporation

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• The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sickness, Refinement, Ruling

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease. . . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He throws off the feelings of the sick and imparts to them his own which are perfect health, and his explanation destroys their feelings or disease. . . . He is like a captain who knows his business and feels confident in a storm, and his confidence sustains the crew and ship when both would be lost if the captain should give way to his fears.

  Phineas Quimby

  Doctors, Giving, Perfect

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• When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.127, Harvard University Press

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• For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Feet, Bed

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• The true Christian is one who is kind of sick of this world. If I find anybody who is settled down too snugly into this world, I am made to doubt whether he's ever truly been born again

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Doubt, World

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• I'm sick of running away from things.

  Natalia Kills

  Running, Running Away

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• You cannot immunize sick, malnourished children and expect them to get away with it. You'll kill far more children than would have died from natural infection...It needs to be appreciated that children in developing countries are at a much greater risk of complications from vaccination and from mercury toxicity...because poor nutrition, parasitic and bacterial infections and low birth weight.

  Archie Kalokerinos

  Country, Children, Risk

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• We're only as sick as the secrets we keep.

  Maria Nemeth

  Secret

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• There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

  Victor Hugo

  Depression, Struggle, Blow

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie. In our history, the state has failed to respond to the weak. You could be white, male, Presbyterian and heterosexual besides, but if you get fired or if you get sick tomorrow, you might as well be Black, for all the state will want to hear from you.

  June Jordan

  White, Pie, America

  June Jordan (1985). “On call: political essays”, South End Pr

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• O yellow eye,
  let me be sick with your heat,
  let me be feverish and frowning.

  Anne Sexton

  Eye, Sunshine, Yellow

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• The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are shattered, we realize how the greatest joys of life lie beyond the realm of reality. The instant they are shattered we are sick with longing for the days when they flamed within us. Our fate spends itself in this succession of hope and nostalgia.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Dream, Lying, Fate

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• I get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Artist, Bored, Littles

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• Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known. The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.

  Hippocrates

  Fall, Home, Exercise

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• Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease, pharmaceutical companies would lose 100% of their profits on the products they sell for that ailment. What all this means is because modern medicine is so heavily intertwined with the financial profits culture, it’s a sickness industry more than it is a health industry.

  James Morcan

  Mean, Medicine, People

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• Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.

  Seneca the Younger

  Disease, Facts, Bowels

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• The spiritual life becomes very simple when you're sick.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Spiritual, Simple, Spirituality

  Wilfrid Sheed (1999). “In Love with Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery”

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• The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no distress be near him but his own Unmanageable thoughts.

  William Wordsworth

  Lovers, Fit, Poet

  William Wordsworth (2009). “The Poems of William Wordsworth: Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth Series”, p.147, Humanities-Ebooks

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• If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

  Ben Jonson

  Neurosis, Illness, Miscellaneous

  Ben Jonson (1999). “Five Plays”, p.78, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

  Euripides

  Clever, Medicine, Needs

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.118, University of Chicago Press

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• When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

  Mason Cooley

  Desire, Excess, Sage

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• As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones.

  Mother Teresa

  Real, Angel, Home

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.

  Sophocles

  Sleep, Eye, Men

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.250, University of Chicago Press

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• There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

  Sophocles

  Men, Disease, Praise

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