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"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."

"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."

"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."

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

"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 good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
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"I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place."

"A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again."

"Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating."

"It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything."
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