"A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility."

Disease, Humility, Treatment

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"A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility."

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"A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility."

Laurel Lee, American Author

Disease, Humility, Treatment

"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."

Thomas Sydenham, English Scientist

Disease, Waiting

"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."

Thomas Sydenham, English Scientist

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

Henri Poincare, French Mathematician

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

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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

Mary Ann Mobley, American Actress

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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."

Gene Tierney, American Actress

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

Mary Ann Mobley, American Actress

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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."

Luc Montagnier, French Scientist

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

William Osler, Canadian Scientist

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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."

Peace

"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."

Heart

"A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility."

Disease

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

Children

"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."

Faith

"I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven."

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