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It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration.

It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to spend ever-increasing sums for the control of disease.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

It is a myth that alcoholics have some spontaneous insight and then seek treatment. Victims of this disease do not submit to treatment out of spontaneous insight - typically, in our experience they come to their recognition scenes through a buildup of crises that crash through their almost impenetrable defense systems. They are forced to seek help; and when they don't, they perish miserably.

It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body.

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.

It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)...regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.

It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

It is food - we now know that food is information, not just calories, and that it can upgrade your biologic software. The majority of chronic disease is primarily a food borne illness. We ate ourselves into this problem and we have to eat ourselves out of it.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

It is impossible to rise to freedom, from the midst of corruptions, without strong convulsions. They are the salutary crises of a serious disease. We are in want of a terrible political fever, to carry off our foul humors.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease as a part of 'God’s Plan' or the greater good — and clinging to ancient texts that preach ill-concealed bigotry and sexism. Instead, we should find ways to make this life happy and satisfying, without regard to the unknowable nature of an afterlife.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.

It is only true love when you have no choice. Love is the most highly valued disease that is identified by the symptom of You-can´t-help-it.

It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

It opens our eyes to many quite weird possibilities about disease that most medical scientists, tending to be unaware of current evolutionary thought, don't think of.

I tried to peg out soldierly,--no use! One dies of war like any old disease.

It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.

It's not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.

It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.

It's terribly wrong to stuff that sacred citadel with junk you know darn well is bad for you, I came to realize I was barreling pell-mell down the road leading to disease, disability and premature destruction of the most precious thing I could ever be given-my own life.

It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll)

It's more work to create poverty, disease and disharmony than it is to create health, harmony and abundance, because perfect health, harmony and abundance are the natural order of things.

It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease

I turned back to my extracurricular study of death and disease. Because no matter what Grace thought, I knew that in Mercy Falls, it's never over

It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.

It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except those who gave rise to them.

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if all I was doing was making it worse.

I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.

I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.

I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages.

I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease.

I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.

I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride.

I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scribbling itch is an incurable disease.

I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.

Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.

I wondered if it was possible to donate my body to science before I was actually dead. I wondered if a disease were to be named after me what the symptoms would be.

Jealousy is a disease, it's like a poison.

Liberalism is a disease cured only by a lobotomy or 90 days in a third world country.