#disease

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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Despair often breeds disease. ↗

— Sophocles

#despair #disease #often

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. ↗

— Sophocles

#amid #angry #applies #disease #grows

Discrimination is a disease. ↗

— Roger Staubach

#disease

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

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Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease. ↗

— Pat Summitt

#challenges #combination #competition #disease #endure

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#comfort #disease #gout #humble #individuals

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

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Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes. ↗

— George Carman

#contribute #deal #disease #great #great deal

I'm a prime example of the way kidney disease strikes silently. ↗

— Sean Elliott

#example #i #kidney #prime #silently