#disease

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils. ↗

— Sophocles

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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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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

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

— Sophocles

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Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease. ↗

— Bill Maher

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

— William Lyon Phelps

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

— Sean Elliott

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A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

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