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"Misery is a communicable disease."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."
"It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has."
"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."
"We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease."
"The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because I soon guessed how it spread."
Explore more quotes by Martha Graham
"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."
"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."
"Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion."
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