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Disease is an experience of so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white...

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If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white

ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.. you cannot suppo...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the end of his pri...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the pers...

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You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?" Fat said. "There are worse diseases than cancer...

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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. Duri...

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Richard DawkinsRiver Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those w...

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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Despair filled his skull even more tightly than his own brain. All around him cars filled with norma...

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The age-old, seemingly inexorable process whereby diseases acquire meanings (by coming to stand for ...

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Susan SontagIllness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors

One feature of the usual script for plague: the disease invariably comes from somewhere else. The na...

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Susan SontagIllness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be ...

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Susan SontagIllness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors

Disease was a perverse, a dissolute form of life. And life? Life itself? Was it perhaps only an infe...

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In more ancient times the life was simpler, but now the discovery of all these different medicines f...

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Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity an...

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Saw a film on cancer yesterday, shown by the English delegation. No doubt about it. I'm right. "Migr...

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Wilhelm ReichBeyond Psychology: Letters and Journals

To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.

depression in its major stages possesses no quickly available remedy: failure of alleviation is one ...

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William StyronDarkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.

Women are the nourishing power of the Universe. Whoever has deep respect for women of the world, wil...

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People with family histories of alcoholism tend to have lower levels of endorphins- the endogenous m...

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Andrew SolomonThe Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-trut...

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Arthur KoestlerThe Ghost in the Machine

... on the historical scale, the damages wrought by individual violence for selfish motives are insi...

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The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught ...

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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

For what's the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?

Evil and suffering are real . . . They aren’t an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. W...

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We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.It’s ...

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The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on thi...

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Evil and suffering are real . . . They aren’t an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. W...

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We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.It’s ...

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The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on thi...

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Evil and suffering are real . . . They aren’t an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. W...

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We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.It’s ...

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The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on thi...

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Evil and suffering are real . . . They aren’t an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. W...

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We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.It’s ...

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The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on thi...

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Evil and suffering are real . . . They aren’t an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. W...

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We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.It’s ...

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The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on thi...

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Evil and suffering are real . . . They aren’t an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. W...

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We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.It’s ...

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The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on thi...

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Evil and suffering are real . . . They aren’t an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. W...

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We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.It’s ...

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The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on thi...

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Evil and suffering are real . . . They aren’t an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. W...

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We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.It’s ...

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The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on thi...

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Our tainted world looms within us, every one.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, you life becomes less about living and more abo...

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After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more ab...

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Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattere...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of t...

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The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved...

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Disease could wipe out an army quicker than any battle.

It is man who has introduced a little grace, beauty, unknown charm and mystery into creation by sing...

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She wasted and grew so thin that she no longer was a little girl, but the shadow of a little girl. T...

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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must...

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What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.

For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce...

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In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not de...

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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-susta...

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It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in...

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Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequea...

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There were usually not nearly as many sick people inside the hospital as Yossarian saw outside the h...

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James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. Ho...

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Khaled HosseiniAnd the Mountains Echoed

Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their ...

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Violence was a disease Gansey didn't think he could catch. But all around him, his friends were slow...

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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.