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"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 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."

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

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

"Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease."

"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."

"We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease."

"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."

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

"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."

"I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place."

"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."
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