#diseases

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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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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There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs. ↗

— William Osler

#familiar #fully #important #know #man

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. ↗

— William Shenstone

#diseases #flattering #most #poetry

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases. ↗

— Caskie Stinnett

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It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#catastrophes #deaths #diseases #kill #laugh

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#good-and-evil #humanity #infectious-diseases #summary #ugliness

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#cure #death #diseases #labor #our

Death is the cure for all diseases. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#death #diseases

I'm involved in Project ALS which is trying to get money for stem cell research. That's one I've been pretty involved with because if you can cure that, you can cure so many other diseases. ↗

— Gina Gershon

#been #cell #cell research #cure #diseases