Disease Quotes
2336 Disease quotes by 1517 unique authors
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Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.
— Arnold Sommerfeld
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Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.
— Peter Gabriel
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Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like the answer to…
— John Hospers
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It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good…
— Gertrude B. Elion
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Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized…
— Carl Sagan
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In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric…
— Winston Churchill
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
— Michel de Montaigne
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
— Edward Abbey
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There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they…
— Booker T. Washington
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The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
— Chris Hedges
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There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material…
— Mother Teresa
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Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all the pus that…
— Rajneesh
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Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.
— Shannon Fife
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We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights -…
— Terence McKenna
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The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far…
— Betty Friedan
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The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit, every…
— John Peter Altgeld
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Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946,…
— Daniel Berrigan
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The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
— William Lyon Phelps
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Pain or not, I would most likely walk around in a suicidal reverie the rest of my life, never actually doing anything about it. Was…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.
— Amy Purdy
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Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.
— Sam Snead
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A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words,…
— Benjamin Hoff
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Hockey is not a sport - it's a disease.
— Chico Resch
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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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