Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of the major sources of profit for the pharmaceutical industry, and the doctors are willing agents of those profits.
Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.
Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.
The best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with H-bombs might possibly put an end to the human race. It is feared that if many H-bombs are used there will be universal death, sudden only for a minority, but for the majority a slow torture of disease and disintegration.
In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused.
Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.
Gather up your fighting spirit or the disease will deafeat you!
Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't curbed. . . We have no option. If it isn't controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.
Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.
Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.
Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.
Disease is a disturbed condition, not a thing or entity.
People are talking about immigration like it is a disease. In fact migrants pay more in than they get out.
we've got to find a better way to handle the expense of disease. Odd as it may seem, the more efficient we become in eliminating disease, the more our services are out of reach of the people.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
I became a lot more educated on this arthritis thing when I was diagnosed with it, but basically OA is a degenerative disease, which is definitely something that you're not going to be able to stop because it's going to be ongoing, but there are certain things you can do to slow down the progression.