Disease Quotes
2336 Disease quotes by 1517 unique authors
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Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy,…
— Olive Schreiner
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I have no doubt in my mind that our chief national problems relating to the eradication of poverty, illiteracy and disease and the scientific production…
— Subhas Chandra Bose
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It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally destroyed healthy life…
— Adolf Hitler
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Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid .
— John McCain
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Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt…
— Lewis Gannett
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A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more than one great…
— Winston Churchill
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We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who…
— Mother Teresa
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Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent…
— John Henry Jowett
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Alcoholism is the disease of more.
— Caroline Knapp
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Alcoholism is the only disease that you can get yelled at for having.
— Mitch Hedberg
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Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it…
— Mitch Hedberg
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The past year's natural disasters have highlighted the invaluable contributions of volunteers in our communities. They have volunteered their time, energy and skills to save…
— Kofi Annan
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EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.
— Mary Tyler Moore
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Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology...
— Susan Sontag
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If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't…
— Barack Obama
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Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.
— Jeffrey Sachs
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Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that…
— Bill Bryson
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It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.
— Ban Ki-moon
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We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a…
— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.
— Dorothy Fuldheim
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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest…
— Mother Teresa
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...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the…
— Hippocrates
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Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease…
— Fran Lebowitz
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Medical researchers have discovered a new disease that has no symptoms. It is impossible to detect, and there is no known cure. Fortunately, no cases…
— George Carlin
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