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• Without evading the grimness of life in much of modern Africa, one can recognize that this continent is not yet sick as our continent is sick. Most Africans remain plugged into reality. In contrast we have become disconnected from it, reduced to compulsively consuming units, taught to worship 'economic growth' - the ultimate unreality in a finite world.

  Dervla Murphy

  Reality, Growth, Taught

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• one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being taught that because we are materially richer we must be emulated without question? What compels us to infect everyone else with our own sick urgency to change, soften and standardise? How can we have the effrontery to lord it over peoples who retain what we have lost - a sane awareness that what matters most is immeasurable?

  Dervla Murphy

  What Matters, Race, Damage

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• Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and a great deal of pleasure there. There are friends, some of whom are sick and needful of you, as you will be of them someday. The world itself is very beautiful. It's a place where you have a lot to do. But you have to do it knowing that sometimes you will be afraid of this new country.

  Grace Paley

  Beautiful, Country, Knowing

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• We're paying more for the privilege of getting sick and dying early. Once again, it makes no sense. And once again, no one in Washington is talking about how to fix it.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Talking, Dying, Privilege

  Michael Bloomberg's Opening Address at Ceasefire Bridging the Political Divide Conference, annenberg.usc.edu. June 20, 2007.

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• Unconsciously we grow to look upon the sick as people of another world.

  I. A. R. Wylie

  People, Looks, World

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• The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.

  Michel de Certeau

  Taken, Men, Order

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.191, Univ of California Press

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• War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Strong, War, Teaching

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.15, University of Toronto Press

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• It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life.

  Audre Lorde

  Meaningful, Mistake, Destiny

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.

  Fran Drescher

  Rich Or Poor, Matter, Illness

  Fran Drescher (2002). “Cancer Schmancer”

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• a sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.

  Georgia Harkness

  Doctors, Reform, Individual

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• Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Alive, Language, Lifetime

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• There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive. It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference, that's all.

  Barbara Pym

  Oxford, Differences, People

  Barbara Pym (1986). “Crampton Hodnet”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough to make a good farmer sick at heart.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Heart, Erosion, Land

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• America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.

  Evelyn Anthony

  Fall, Unforgivable Sin, America

  Evelyn Anthony (2015). “The Rendezvous”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up.

  Mary Jane Ward

  Locks, Illness, Wells

  Mary Jane Ward (1983). “The snake pit”

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• You're as sick as your secrets.

  Isabelle Holland

  Secret

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• For millions, the retirement dream is in reality an economic nightmare. For millions, growing old today means growing poor, being sick, living in substandard housing, and having to scrimp merely to subsist.

  Sylvia Porter

  Dream, Retirement, Mean

  Sylvia Field Porter (1976). “Sylvia Porter's Money Book: How to Earn It, Spend It, Save It, Invest It, Borrow It, and Use it to Better Your Life”

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• You can't live a healthy life on a sick planet.

  John Replogle

  Healthy, Planets, Healthy Life

  "How Seventh Generation Made Sustainable Cleaning Products Mainstream". Interview with Meghan French Dunbar, consciouscompanymedia.com. July 4, 2015.

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• the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick and fast and were almost thrust upon us, the nation was still under the influence of the reconstruction spirit, when everything seemed possible ... A few years later the nation had reached the stage which follows a drinking bout. It was feeling ruefully in its empty pockets. It did not want to part with anything to anybody. Its head ached. Noble sentiments made it feel sick. It wanted only to be left alone.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  War, Drinking, Years

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• Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words.
  A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Reading, Men, Medical

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.6, Tharpa Publications US

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• In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning.

  Suzanne Gordon

  Religious, Drama, Character

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• I love KIND bars. My favorites are coconut and almond and the dark chocolate and sea salt because staying fueled helps keep me from getting sick or injured. Bananas have also made a great comeback in my life. My kids eat them all the time on the go, which has inspired my go-to pre-run morning meal of peanut butter and banana on toast.

  Summer Sanders

  Running, Morning, Kids

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• I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Tired, Thinking, Want Something

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• Most of the time I'm not even working, I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky. If there really is a god, then he really looks after me. All these years he's taken care of me, my career keeps getting better and better. Whatever I want just seems to come. And it keeps coming. So I promised myself that I have to pay for this, payback society. So this is why I started my Jackie Chan Foundation to help children and sick kids and people in hospitals.

  Jackie Chan

  Children, Taken, Kids

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. September 25, 2002.

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• I feel like people are starting to come around and embrace rock. Because I guess they're getting sick of the stale sounds of certain electronica. They kind of get really bored with the fact that it's so self-indulgent.

  Jason Reece

  Rocks, Self, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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