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"I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread."

"I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it."

"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."

"The dancing sickness took place during the latter part of the fifteenth century. Bubonic plague--the black death--decimated Europe near the end of the fourteenth. Whooping cough near the end of the seventeenth, and the first known outbreaks of influenza near the end of the nineteenth. We've become so used to the idea of the flu--it seems almost like the common cold to us, doesn't it?--that no one but the historians seem to know that a hundred years ago it didn't exist."

"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."

"Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover."

"Disease is a vital expression of the human organism."

"We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease."
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"There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS."


"My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS."


"Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze."


"I have been off the motorcycles for about 20 years now, but that doesn't mean I can't still do it."


"With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do."


"In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate."
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