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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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"Anthrax is a deadly inhalational disease."
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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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"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."
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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."
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"I feel coming on a strange disease - humility."
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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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"I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it."
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"Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom."
Society

"Fascism is when corporations become the government."
Politics

"I find that the world is changing much, much faster than I can even bitch about it."
Society

"To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'."
Religion

"I don't ridicule religion, it ridicules itself."
Religion

"A lot of good has come from drugs. I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. Because a lot of kids wouldn't even be born if it weren't for that album, so it evens out."
Drugs

"Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have everything you want exactly when you want it has somehow become un-American."
Freedom

"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."
People

"But females in even the most advanced Muslim countries are simply, by law, not the equal of men."
Society

"What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country."
Woman
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