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Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Disaster Disease Live Miracle Society Stupid

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God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Because Cured Dies Disease God Imagine Nowadays

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I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

~Emma Thompson

Topics: Brought Dealing Death Difficult Difficult Things Disease Funerals Giggle People Quite Things Up Very Were Who Witty

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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: About Alzheimer Because Disease Enough Live Long Medical Never People Practically Spoke Student Why 1950S

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It may act as an ancillary factor, but by itself, the mutation in tau doesn't give you Alzheimer's disease. This is not to say the tau is not very important. It may be important in propagating the disorder from one cell to another. But as a causal mechanism, the evidence is strongest for beta amyloid abnormalities.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Act Alzheimer Another Causal Cell Disease Disorder Evidence Factor Give Important Itself May Mechanism Mutation Say Strongest Very You

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Bipolar disorder is a scary disease, but it is manageable. And I feel blessed that I was able to get the right attention and the right medication to deal with my specific illness.

~Eric Millegan

Topics: Able Attention Bipolar Blessed Deal Disease Disorder Feel Get Illness Manageable Medication Right Scary Specific I Feel

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For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes.

~Eric Topol

Topics: Benefit Chance Cholesterol Diabetes Disease Doing Getting Great Had Heart Heart Disease High People Taking Who You

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College campuses are a focus of prevention efforts for meningococcal disease because of the increased incidence of the disease during adolescence and young adulthood, as well as transmission from crowded living conditions and social behaviors common among college students.

~Erik Paulsen

Topics: Adolescence Adulthood Among Because Behaviors College College Students Common Conditions Crowded Disease Efforts Focus Increased Living Prevention Social Students Transmission Well Young

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I have never had a dietician and I never will, unless I get a disease.

~Esha Gupta

Topics: Disease Get Had Never Unless Will

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In the 19th century, smallpox was widely considered a disease of filth, which meant that it was largely understood to be a disease of the poor. According to filth theory, any number of contagious diseases were caused by bad air that had been made foul by excrement or rot.

~Eula Biss

Topics: According Air Any Bad Been Caused Century Considered Contagious Disease Diseases Filth Foul Had Largely Made Meant Number Poor Rot Smallpox Theory Understood Were Which Widely 19Th Century

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