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

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.

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

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

Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

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.

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.

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

Satire is the disease of art.

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.

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.

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.

Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.

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

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.

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

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

Seriousness is a disease of the ego

Seriousness is a disease.

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.

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

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 seizes the body from bad ventilation.

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.

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.

Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.

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 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.

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

So far, I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay combative even while taking the measure of my inevitable decline. I repeat, this is no more than what a healthy person has to do in slower motion.

... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances acting in childhood do have a persisting effect on adult disease rates, in addition to influences acting in adulthood.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

Some people don't want to know that very little progress has been made. It is in the same way that companies are selling their products (i.e. the billion dollar cosmetic industry), they can package the message of femininity and normalization around this disease.

Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.

Some genetic variants can be informative about ones risk for Parkinsons disease and Alzheimers disease.

Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business.

Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around the planet by people.