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Martha Graham

"Misery is a communicable disease."

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"Misery is a communicable disease."

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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."

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

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

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

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"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."

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

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

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"It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass."

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"It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has."

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

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"The body says what words cannot."
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"Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart."
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"Nothing is more revealing than movement."
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"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."
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"The only sin is mediocrity."
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"'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years."
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"First we have to believe, and then we believe."
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"Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body."
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"We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God."
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"I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being."
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