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Disease Quotes by Oliver Sacks
- A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace…
- Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of cases had been…
- In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.
- The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a…
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- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- The remedy is worse than the disease. — Francis Bacon
- Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that… — James A. Baldwin
- Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease. — Daniel Barenboim
- It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does… — Saint Basil
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food. — Mario Batali
- I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her… — Melody Beattie
- At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things… — Martha Beck
- The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As… — Andrew Bernstein
- We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is… — Wendell Berry
- Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for… — Grace Abbott