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The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.

The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.

The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.

The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.

The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases.

The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.

The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken.

The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.

The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

The transformation of disease, as exemplified by the case of diabetes, is a valuable and elegant concept that serves to remind us that the tally sheet for medical science must carry a column for debit as well as credit.

The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.

The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.

The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys

The worst elements in Mexico are being pushed into the United States by the Mexican government. The Border Patrol knows this. Likewise, tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border.

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.

They figured out a way to control that hamburger disease. You dip the hamburger into the scalding hot coffee before eating.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace. They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie.

Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.

They were very short, the golden years. The golden years are when you can sit back, hopefully, and exchange memories. And that's the worst part about this disease. There's nobody to exchange memories with.

Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.

This disease they call 'rap' - some kind of rhythmic pulse is going by, while some sociopathic idiot is belching out grade school poetry.

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

This is how diseases are usually spread. Someone spits on a guy, somebody has sex with a chimp. Next thing you know . . . AIDS.

This is a mighty wonder: in the discharge from the lungs alone, which is not particularly dangerous, the patients do not despair of themselves, even although near the last. Concerning Tuberculosis.

This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.

Time is an herb that cures all Diseases.

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.

To build public support for what they're doing, scientists are always going to say there is the prospect to cure all these horrible diseases, but they're cautious for the most part in saying when those cures will arrive.

To be specific, is to exhibit a knowledge of the principles and art of adjusting; a comprehension of facts so systematized that they are available for the relief of disease.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

Today about 95% of the prescription drugs sold are Maintenance drugs-drugs that treat only the symptoms of a disease, and that you are expected to take for the rest of your life.

To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind.

To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting

To find health should be the object of the doctor. Any one can find disease.