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Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific name is travelitis furiosus - is carried by a germ called prosperity.

Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute.

TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis").

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

Unlived dreams often show up in your body as disease. Go for the Big Wow. Life is short!

Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of  'destruction' and 'waste'.  Tuberculosis was known as 'consumption', that is, a wasting disease.  Then  economists came up with a bizarre theory, which has become widely accepted, according to which the basis of a sound economy is a continual increase in the consumption (that is, waste) of  goods

Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. Which disease? The disease of love.

Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.

Violence [in Palestina] is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers. Therefore, the first responsibility is to put an end to the occupation.

Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

Watching these channels all day is incredibly depressing. I live in a constant state of depression. I think of us as turd miners. I put on my helmet, I go and mine turds, hopefully I don't get turd lung disease.

We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness.

We are all predisposed to disease if we mismanage our genes.

We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease.

We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety

We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.

Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.

We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.

We had a week off in the middle of shooting, but as soon as everyone stopped, we all went down with six different types of flu and other unmentionable diseases.

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

[we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people.

We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives.

We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.

We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

We need to alert women everywhere about the seriousness of heart disease.

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.

We see clear evidence repeated in many studies that higher intake of trans fats is associated with higher risk of heart disease, and with many other conditions, such as diabetes and infertility.

We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with disease, poverty, overcrowding and the transmission of hereditable traits.

We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and centrally placed of our adversaries. We assume that they must somehow relish what they do.

we've got to find a better way to handle the expense of disease. Odd as it may seem, the more efficient we become in eliminating disease, the more our services are out of reach of the people.

We were told in one lecture that it was possible to immunize against diphtheria and tetanus by the use of chemically treated toxins, or toxoids. And the following lecture, we were told that for immunization against a virus disease, you have to experience the infection, and that you could not induce immunity with the so-called "killed" or inactivated, chemically treated virus preparation. Well, somehow, that struck me. What struck me was that both statements couldn't be true. And I asked why this was so, and the answer that was given was in a sense, 'Because.' There was no satisfactory answer.

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease, protected by my neurosis which, through writing, gave me happiness.

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?