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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 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.

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

optimism is a disease

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

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.

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 goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.'

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment of a chronic incurable degenerative disease.

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.

Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

Pot is to narcotics what herpes is to social diseases; it doesn't count cos it's not really dangerous and it's too easy to get.

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.

Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

Prayer is the Lord's great sterilizer against the germs of spiritual disease.

Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?

prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put on their hats, close up their laboratories, and give the spirochetes, bacilli and viruses a free hand.

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid.