Ills Quotes
220 quotes by 180 authors
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Curing environmental ills requires not a stance outside nature, but a stance within nature, a role not as onlooker without, but as an actor within.
— Valerius Geist
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In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe…
— Ray Stannard Baker
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I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.
— Barbara Woodhouse
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Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to…
— Henry Grady Weaver
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Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have - the boys…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences…
— Blaise Pascal
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... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of…
— Alfred Tarski
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The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals…
— Charles Churchill
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It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Who can sum up all the ills the women of a nation suffer from war? They have all of the misery and none of the…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from…
— Leo Tolstoy
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If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.
— Lord Byron
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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the…
— Henry Ford
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All of man's ills are due to his lack of knowing God within him. The perfection of God's universe is founded upon its perfection of…
— Walter Russell
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Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life…
— Samuel Johnson
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I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.
— Adam Levine
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The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society’s weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or…
— Ken Saro-Wiwa
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping…
— William James
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