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

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

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"Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation."

Friedensreich Hundert, Austrian Architect

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"Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout."

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William Osler, Canadian Scientist

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"I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation."

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

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"I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking."

Marriage

"There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS."

Doctors

"I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting."

Food

"I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go."

Mother

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

Now

"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."

Work

"You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future."

Hope

"I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves."

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"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."

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"I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice."

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