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Pot is to narcotics what herpes is to social diseases; it doesn't count cos it's not really dangerous and it's too easy to get.

Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.

Prayer is the Lord's great sterilizer against the germs of spiritual disease.

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?

Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.

prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put on their hats, close up their laboratories, and give the spirochetes, bacilli and viruses a free hand.

Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid.

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic "causes" of these "conditions"?

Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

Rats are just Ziploc bags full of disease.

Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.

Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.

Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms of Biden's Disease, that form of logorrhea that causes victims, such as Sen. Joe Biden, to become lost on the syntactical back roads of their extemporaneous rhetoric.

Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell

Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.

Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

Repressively, Lymond himself answered. “I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody ‘got’ me,” he said.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.

Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.

Savant syndrome is not a disorder in the same way as autism is a disorder or dementia is a disorder. Savant syndrome are some conditions that are superimposed and grafted on to some underlying disability. So savant syndrome is not a disease or disorder in and of itself. It is a collection of characteristics, or symptoms, or behaviors that have grafted on to the underlying disability.

Satire is the disease of art.

Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.

Saying you "have" something implies that it's temporary and undesirable. Asperger's isn't like that. You've been Aspergian as long as you can remember, and you'll be that way all your life. It's a way of being, not a disease.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.

Seriousness is a disease of the ego

Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty, of most that are young and of many old, are wasted. Here diseases, vicious habits, bastards and legislators are frequently spawned.

Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease.

Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this has not yet been translated into treatments that can help cure patients. These treatments will come - tomorrow, or the day after.

Separation is The Only Disease, It is The Cause—Everything Else is The Effect!

Seriousness is a disease.

Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.

Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity.

Sickness and disease are a change in awareness from comfort to discomfort.

Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.

Sickness and disease will be a part of life of this planet until Jesus comes back.

Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease.

Since we're coming into a rebirth, and there's a consciousness of health, because the disease that is death, we are able to overcome that.

Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.

Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary's cross.

Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.