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There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike.

There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can direct a method of cure to a person labouring under disease, without thinking, that is, without theorizing; and happy therefore is the patient, whose physician possesses the best theory.

There are some remedies worse than disease.

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time

There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we've had dying from the tsunami.

There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

There is already something like a Jewish monopoly in high finance... here is the same element of Jewish monopoly in the silver trade, and in the control of various other metals, notably lead, nickel, quicksilver. What is most disquieting of all, this tendency to monopoly is spreading like a disease.

There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

There is never a sickness Jesus cannot heal and never a disease Jesus cannot cure. To God's power, nothing is impossible!

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.

There is no cure for fictional character love, but the plus side is that it is an entirely benign disease with no bad side effects.

There is no disease so destructive as lust.

There is no conclusive proof that nicotine's addictive... And the same thing with cigarettes causing emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease.

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

The relief of suffering is a great good. The curing of illness and disease - these are great human goods. This is the mission of medicine.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.

The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.

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.

There's nothing more powerful than someone who has the disease who can be articulate and go in front of Congress or go to local government and say man, this is what's happening, and it's going to be you.

There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease.

The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an imposition of white supremacy for which we all should make contrition.

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.

There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.

Theres very few things that tear me up and get me, but kids, especially terminally ill kids or kids with diseases... gets me every time.

The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.

The routine promotion of condoms through advertising has been stopped by networks who are so hypocritically priggish that they refuse to describe disease control as they promote disease transmission.

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

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

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

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 worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.

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

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

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

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