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"Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact that you get more sexual transmission in some ethnic populations. One way to answer this is to look for genetic factors."

"I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon."

"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."

"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."

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

"It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has."

"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."

"I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it."
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"Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum."

"I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all."

"I have been wearing black, which was a reaction to the Ginger thing. But now I have hopes and I can be anything. Tomorrow I might be naked with a feather boa, who knows?"

"There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty."

"The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing."

"Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself."

"Some people are naturally thin and some people are naturally heavier. It doesn't mean that bigger is healthier, or much thinner is healthier, it's on an individual basis."

"I have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn't dare admit it to myself even. It took me a long time to confront my fears."
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