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“The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon...” Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
“Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.” Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, Quarantine Speech
“Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment.” Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
“I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a noble mountain, or in the heart of a glacier, would be blessed as compared with death from disease, or from some...” John Muir, Stickeen
“To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.” Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years
“Two centuries ago England was devastated by the plague; cleanliness and common sense were enough to free us from its ravages. One century since, small-pox was almost as great a scourge; science, though working empirically, and almost in the dark,...” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.” Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

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