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• I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .

  Evita Peron

  Eight, Government, Hands

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• We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Sensible

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.45, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

  Marianne Moore

  Trust, Contagion

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.136, Penguin

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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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• Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

  Dirk Benedict

  Fear, Cities, Hollywood

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• There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

  Rumi

  Perfection, Soul, Proud

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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• Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor - according to me - is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.

  Rajneesh

  Humble, Aquariums, Essentials

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• Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

  Theodor Adorno

  Health, Health Care

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.77, Verso

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• The suffering of sickness and the suffering of persecution have this in common: they are both intended by Satan for the destruction of our faith, and governed by God for the purifying of our faith... Christ sovereignly accomplishes His loving, purifying purpose, by overruling Satan's destructive attempts. Satan is always aiming to destroy our faith; but Christ magnifies His power in weakness.

  John Piper

  Suffering, Weakness, Purpose

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• Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.

  Patrick MacGill

  Cutting, Perfect, Attention

  MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.15, Read Books Ltd

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• Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

  Albert Ellis

  Self Esteem, Men, Conditional

  "A Guide to Rational Living". Book by Albert Ellis, 1961.

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• There is no sickness problem. There is simply a problem of the believer's coming to know his inheritance in Christ.

  E. W. Kenyon

  Faith, Inheritance, Problem

  E.W. Kenyon (2017). “Jesus the Healer”, p.14, BookBaby

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• Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.

  J. C. Ryle

  Spiritual, Disappointment, Humble

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• What you do with your eyes in some cases is a matter of life and death. To look at focus on the sickness brings death. To look at focus on God's Word brings life.

  Gloria Copeland

  Eye, Life And Death, Focus

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• Make sickness itself a prayer.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Prayer, Illness

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.4260, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.

  Johannes Tauler

  Blessed, Heart, Long

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• Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad; yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Life, Time, Sadness

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.6, Profile Books

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• A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.

  James Wolfe

  Air, British Soldiers, Troops

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• Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Motivational, Lying

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• When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.

  Alanis Obomsawin

  Money, Nature, Food

  "Who is the Chairman of This Meeting? : A Collection of Essays". Book by Ralph Osborne (p. 43), "Conversations with North American Indians" by Ted Poole, 1972.

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• Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done. Our work is for freedom for all.

  Nelson Mandela

  Done, Poverty, Aids

  "Stars celebrate 90th birthday" by Damien Francis, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2008.

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• In becoming part of the Body of Christ, sickness should have no more mastery over us than it had over the Body of Christ when He was on the earth.

  James Gordon Lindsay

  Should Have, Mastery, Body

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• We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Drinking, Food, Health

  Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) "On Eating and Drinking"

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• Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.

  M. Scott Peck

  Hard Work, Grace, Growth

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• We're going to have plenty of work to do, but it's going to be a lot easier than here. There'll be no sorrow, no sickness, no pain, no weariness, no death, no more tears, no more crying. That's certainly going to make things easier. We're going to have rest in Heaven compared to what we've had in this life, but we're also going to have something to do. We'd eventually be unhappy if we didn't!

  David Berg

  Pain, Heaven, Sorrow

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