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Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

A lot of times, when you have a disability, one of the things you deal with is other people's projections of what your experience is and their fear about it, and not seeing the experience you're having. There's nothing horrifying about it to me. It is what I deal with. It is my reality and my life, but it's not horrible.

Alzheimer's disease is death before death, and I'm terrified of it.

Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape.

A man will never fear something besides Allah unless it be due to a disease in his heart.

Americans have a severe disease - worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.

Among all forms of mentation, verbal thinking is the most articulate, the most complex, and the most vulnerable to infectious diseases. It is liable to absorb whispered suggestions, and to incorporate them as hidden persuaders into the code.

Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness.

And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. The same thing occurs in affairs of state; for by recognizing from afar the diseases that are spreading in the state (which is a gift given only to the prudent ruler), they can be cured quickly; but when, not having been recognized, they are not recognized and are left to grow to the extent that everyone recognizes them, there is no longer any cure.

And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.

And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.

An eating disorder is serious and it’s a disease, and I don’t think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they’re openly telling you that they do.

An educated child is better equipped to handle all the challenges of life, from finding work to avoiding diseases like HIV/AIDS.

Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly irrational hope.

A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.

Anorexia is such a self-consuming, selfish disease. It's all about you. Becoming a mother, all of a sudden it wasn't about me anymore.

Anthrax is a deadly inhalational disease.

Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development.

Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease.

Animal experiments are no joke. Thank goodness scientists are finding better, more humane ways to develop treatments for cancer and other killer diseases.

Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.

Any disease could be healed in a matter of days - any disease - if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate.

Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.

Anyone who wants to pretend that your Huntington's disease is an invention is someone who does not have your best interests at heart.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

Anti-Semitism is a disease-you catch it from Jews

Apoplexie and lethargie, As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.

Arteriosclerosis can be considered a disease of protein intoxication.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.

Ascetic spirituality is a symptom of the very disease which it intends to cure.

A severe disease that transmits easily will leave very little international surge capacity as most countries will need their own staff and resources to combat the outbreak in their territories.

A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.

Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic disease.

As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.

As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.

Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.

A shower would minimise the risk of contracting the disease.

As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious.

Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.

... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.