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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'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."

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

"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."

"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."

"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."

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

"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."

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

"Disease is a vital expression of the human organism."
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"When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality."

"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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