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The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease.

The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.

The burden of disease falls on the poor.

The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.

The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.

The Caribbean is the region in the Americas worst affected by the epidemic of NCDs. These diseases are responsible for over two- thirds of deaths, much sickness and ill health, resulting in an unsustainable burden on our fragile economies.

The Centers for Disease Control says that there are 76 million cases of food poisoning in the United States every year, 350,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths. Is that a lot or a little? Well, it depends on how you look at it.

... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.

The confidence that God is mindful of the individual is of tremendous value in dealing with the disease of fear, for it gives us a sense of worth, of belonging, and of at homeness in the universe.

The corpse's hand reached up and grabbed Shaisam by the throat. He gasped, thrashing, as the corpse opened its eye. "There's an odd thing about disease I once heard, Fain," Matrim Cauthon whispered. "Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.

The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive in touch. Has not the extreme cultivation of the commercial faculty permitted others as essential to national life, to be blighted by disease?

The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.

The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.

The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

The Delphic oracles of the disease theory of delinquency (the "experts") have slapped all manner of misconduct with diagnostic labels... The arsonist has ”pyromania,” the thief is inflicted with ”kleptomania,” and Bill Clinton is not promiscuous, but a ”sex-addict.

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.

The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research.

The evidence is truly overwhelming that disease is pluri-causal.

The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.

The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.

The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious--that is, a disease not understood--in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured.

The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.

The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy.

The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences...I f you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against. The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the suppression of acute disease by drug poisoning.

The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

The greatest achievement of my life is enduring a disease that nearly killed me. I came out of it a better person. It's my one great accomplishment - more so than anything else I've done.

The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.

The hardening of the attitudes is the most deadly disease on the face of the earth.

The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.

The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its entire extent in the shortest, most reliable, and least disadvantageous way, according to clearly realizable principles.

The hunger of passions is the greatest disease.

The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.

The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation.

The impression I got during the research and interview process was that they are trying to own the disease and therefore own the cause which can ultimately be more profitable for some corporations and fund-raising groups.

The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!

The Japanese are a disease of the skin. The Communists are a disease of the heart.

The list of fun and easily fixed brain diseases is very short.