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Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.

Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.

O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife.

Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases.

Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease.

Nutrition science, however, suggests that golden rice alone will not greatly diminish vitamin A defi-ciency and associated blindness. [”¦] People whose diets lack [fats and proteins] or who have intestinal diarrheal diseases -- common in develop-ing countries -- cannot obtain vitamin A from golden rice.

Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst.

Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and whats a taboo and whats not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.

Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.

Often the confidence of the patient in his physician does more for the cure of his disease than the physician with all his remedies. Reasserting the statement by Avicenna.

Of course you know the miracle of AIDS, we all do. It's the only disease that turns fruits into vegetables.

Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.

Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.

Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?

One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) He has St. Vitus's dance, He has nerve fever, He has dropsy, He has ague, since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimers - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.

One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease.

Only in psychiatry is the existence of physical disease determined by APA presidential proclamations, by committee decisions, and even, by a vote of the members of APA, not to mention the courts.

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.

One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.

optimism is a disease

Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short duration, or of small quantity, they have gain'd credit which they do not deserve.

Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.

On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear in the war against disease, in the creation of new industries, and in the strengthening of our Armed Forces depends in large measure our future as a nation.

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

Or so we don't think about how we're just vulnerable specks trying to survive on a violent, tumultuous planet, at the mercy of hurricanes and volcanoes and asteroids and terrorists and disease and a million other things. We concentrate on having little thoughts so we don't have BIG THOUGHTS. . . . You've got to ignore the one big truth - life is fatal.

Our intention is not to create cloned human beings, but rather to make lifesaving therapies for a wide range of human disease conditions, including diabetes, strokes, cancer, AIDS, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.

Our goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases.

Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness of Superstition, Across barricades of Jim Crowism . . . We advance.

Outgrew the media... The negativity felt like a disease.

Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

Paranoia is a social disease-you get it from screwing other people.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.

Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

People don't die of old age, they die of diseases that accompany old age, and they are preventable.

People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.