Disease Quotes
2336 Disease quotes by 1517 unique authors
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There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like…
— Densey Clyne
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The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and it's a wonder to me…
— N. Scott Momaday
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Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible for…
— Barbara Stocking
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To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and…
— Unknown Author
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I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And…
— George Eliot
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Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Perfection is a disease of a nation.
— Beyonce Knowles
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Young people were once considered relatively safe from HIV/AIDS. Today, their lives and futures are at risk throughout the world because of this disease. I…
— Liam Neeson
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I still cannot fathom how difficult it was for the women I met to find out that they were HIV-positive. It is such a courageous…
— Gabriel Byrne
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AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies"…
— William J. Clinton
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Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, 'cause…
— Jim Beaver
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African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White women of the same age. Survival rates are worse…
— Frank C. Garland
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Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to…
— Susan Sontag
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We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.
— Gilbert Adair
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Knowledge is the key to stopping the spread of AIDS. Yet millions of children are missing an education. Missing their teachers who have died of…
— Susan Sarandon
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Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family. We are working to find the cures that will give…
— Marlo Thomas
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If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.
— Robin Williams
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Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.
— William Zinsser
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We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with…
— Margaret Sanger
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I still think photographers should be lashed out at. They should be put in a cage where you can poke them with a stick for…
— Sean Penn
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Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I like to start off my day with a glass of champagne...I like to wind it up with a glass of champagne, too. To be…
— Fernand Point
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It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
— Hippocrates
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
— Susan Sontag
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There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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