Tumors Quotes

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  Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

  Jim Valvano

  Encouraging, Basketball, Uplifting

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

  Jack London

  Sarcastic, Heart, Principles

  "Workers have been banned from calling out 'scab'. Where are the freedom senators?" by Jeff Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. September 04, 2016.

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• The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Self, Aggravation

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 10

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• Is there a tumor in your humor?

  Robbie Williams

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• Taking a biopsy often aggravates and stimulates growth - and does not indicate how many secondary tumors have developed.

  Charles Horace Mayo

  Dark, Growth, Age

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• In the laboratory, we call this the six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer rule: you can ask any biological question, no matter how seemingly distant-what makes the heart fail, or why worms age, or even how birds learn songs-and you will end up, in fewer than six genetic steps, connecting with a proto-oncogene or tumor suppressor.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Song, Cancer, Heart

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• I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes]

  Bill Hicks

  America, Salute, Deals

  "Sane Man", 1989.

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• To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to rid itself of communism (and even then face lengthy treatment for secondary tumors).

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Cancer, Faces

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• I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it.

  Sandy Duncan

  Real, Eye, Nerves

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• Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Dying, Oncologists, Patient

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• Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with that desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape.

  Georges Bernanos

  Sex, Men, Humanity

  Georges Bernanos, Pamela Morris (1975). “The diary of a country priest”

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• From now on, in any place, if any nation or any group confronts the Zionist regime, we will endorse and we will help. We have no fear expressing this... The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor that must be removed, and God willing it will be.

  Ali Khamenei

  Groups, Helping, No Fear

  "Iran military manoeuvres heighten Middle East tensions". www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2012.

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• Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon (Israel). We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region. No one will allow a bunch of thugs, lechers and outcasts from London, America and Moscow to rule over the Palestinians.

  Ali Khamenei

  Thug, Israel, Iran

  "Iran Leader Urges Destruction of 'cancerous' Israel". Friday sermon, edition.cnn.com. December 15, 2000.

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• Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.

  Virginia Foxx

  Cells, Adults, Form

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• I had a tumor. But it was great.

  David Rakoff

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• When the finely tuned balance among the different parts of bodies breaks down, the individual creature can die. A cancerous tumor, for example, is born when one batch of cells no longer cooperates with others. By dividing endlessly, or by failing to die properly, these cells can destroy the necessary balance that makes a living individual person. Cancers break the rules that allow cells to cooperate with one another. Like bullies who break cooperative societies, cancers behave in their own best interest until they kill their larger community, the human body.

  Neil Shubin

  Cancer, Cells, Community

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• Such letters...from the FDA, are, filled with objectively demonstrable lies, practiced deceptions and deviousness, red herrings, directed misinformation, misdirected information, etc. ...Once FDA-NCI-AMA-ACS...concedes that Laetrile anti-tumor efficacy was indeed even once observed...a permanent crack in bureaucratic armor has taken place.

  Dean Burk

  Lying, Taken, Dark

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• So far, I am a cancer survivor, but cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.

  Kathryn Joosten

  Cancer, Cells, Anxiety

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• We were led to a pediatric ophthalmologist. It's a hard date for me, April 14, 1998. The doctor came back from the examining room and told us she had tumors in both eyes.

  Hunter Tylo

  Eye, Doctors, Dating

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• I had a brain cancer specialist sit in my living room and tell me that he would never take radiation if he had a brain tumor. And I asked him, 'but, do you send people for radiation?' and he said, of course. 'I'd be drummed out of the hospital if I didn't.

  Ralph W. Moss

  Cancer, People, Brain

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• Brain tumor survivors: don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You in a war and you are bound to have a few battle wounds.

  Rachel Grady

  War, Cancer, Battle Wounds

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• The present treatments for brain cancer are not curative. We need new and better treatments. More funding for research. Legislation to improve the research system and to provide better access to care, treatment, and rehabilitation services for all brain tumor survivors.

  Shannon O'Brien

  Cancer, Brain, Needs

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• It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Powerful, Feelings, Monsters

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• I gave up meat when I was twelve. & One day I was cutting up a chicken for my mom, and I hit a tumor with the knife. There was pus and blood all over the place. That was enough for me.

  Josh Hartnett

  Mom, Cutting, Blood

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• Only two things grow for the sake of growth: businesses and tumors.

  Ricardo Semler

  Two, Growth, Sake

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