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• But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's mind. She was gentle and quiet in intense bodily suffering, almost in proportion as she had been restless and depressed when there had been no real cause for grief.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mother, Real, Grief

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1439, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.

  John Piper

  Sleep, Thinking, Bed

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• Everyone has a struggle in life, and the question is do you allow yourself to be overcome by it or do you master it with unified strength and power. This is exactly what the music was meant to do, to transend your normal world, to make you more than what you are, to make you set down your burden for a while. Feel powerful, feel invincible, feel indestructible; believe in something as opposed to believing in nothing; spread the sickness, infect the world.

  David Draiman

  Powerful, Believe, Struggle

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• An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment.

  Michio Kushi

  Hate, Ignorance, Giving

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• A woman whose heart is not touched by the sickness of sorrow and whose hands do not go out in relief where it is in her power to help, lacks one of the elements which make the glory of womanhood.

  J.R. Miller

  Heart, Hands, Sorrow

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• The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for short, it becomes a symptom of political sickness.

  Petr Skrabanek

  Political, States, Symptoms

  The Death of Humane Medicine (1994)

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• Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers, our infections, our rapid, minute mutations, which take us toward death even as they evolve us, as a species, into some ill-defined future.

  Lauren Slater

  Fall, Mutation, Fever

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• The worst part about pregnancy would definitely have to be my nausea. I don't know why it's just called morning sickness because morning sickness never just happened in the morning for me and it's not happening just in the morning for my sister.

  Tia Mowry

  Morning, Pregnancy, Nausea

  "Teen Actress Tia Mowry, Grown Up, Talks Motherhood". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.

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• My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of the helpless world.

  Margaret Drabble

  Iraq, United States, Done

  "I loathe America, and what it has done to the rest of the world" by Margaret Drabble, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 8, 2003.

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• As you know macrobiotics has helped thousands of sick people; but this is kindergarten. The purpose of macrobiotics is to become free to change all of this world into what we want - unhappiness to happiness, sickness to health, war to peace, misery to love. When you attain this freedom you become the children of the Kingdom of Heaven.

  Michio Kushi

  Children, War, Sick

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• Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a wing, a fruit, a woody stem, or a claw appear. Mutations, in summary, tend to induce sickness, death, or deficiencies. No evidence in the vast literature of heredity changes shows unambiguous evidence that random mutation itself, even with geographical isolation of populations, leads to speciation.

  Lynn Margulis

  Loss, Wings, Population

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• I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness.

  Myrtle Fillmore

  Children, Child Of God

  Charles Fillmore, Myrtle Fillmore (1949). “Unity [devoted to Practical Christianity]”

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• The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not a fad or a fringe or a sickness. It is not about sin or salvation. The gay rights movement is an integral part of the American promise of freedom.

  Urvashi Vaid

  Party, Gay, Rights

  At the March on Washington, April 25, 1993.

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• I have this mental sickness called creativity.

  Philippe Starck

  Creativity

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• The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.

  Theodor Adorno

  Sibling, Health, Reason

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.73, Verso

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• It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.

  David Livingstone

  Sacrifice, Anxiety, Soul

  David Livingstone (1858). “Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick”, p.23

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• There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

  Aeschylus

  Lying, Literature, Be Kind

  Aeschylus (1956). “Aeschylus: The suppliant maidens, The Persians, translated by S. G. Benardete. Seven against Thebes, Prometheus bound, translated by D. Grene”

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• All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Fear, Newspapers, Hang In There

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• Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.

  Chuck Barris

  Effort, Feelings, Rotten

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• Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals, the two things seem to go together, it is a pathology it is a sickness.

  Pat Roberts

  Two, People, Together

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• I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly.

  Edith Piaf

  Thinking, Dying, Awful

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• We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

  Augustus William Hare

  Recovery, Men, Looks

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.186

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• So long as a person who has made mistakes . . . honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at him.

  Mao Zedong

  Mistake, Long, Wish

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.134, Lulu.com

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• No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.

  Djuna Barnes

  Men, Needs, Looks

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.

  George Sand

  Fighting, Effort, Causes

  George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press

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