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“It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time-and long before that-God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.”

Years Lasts Views Common Modern Century Disease Impulse Historian Rulers Last Year Inability Malfunction Richard Ii

Author:Barbara Tuchman

“Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were dangerous for women. Articles in the Lancet declared that women's brains would burst and their uteruses atrophy if they engaged in any form of rigorous thinking. The famous physician J.D. Kellogg insisted that novel reading was the greatest cause of uterine disease among young women and urged parents to protect their daughters from the dreaded consequences of print.”

“With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later, I have to defend my son. Anti-Semitism, I've seen, is like a disease that goes dormant, flaring up with the next political trigger.”

People Littles Political Next Found Half Century Son Disease Jew My Son Meant To Be Triggers Anti Semitism Dormant Half A Century Little Knowledge

Author:Michael Douglas

“The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious--that is, a disease not understood--in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured.”

Lasts Fantasy Century Disease Understood Medicine Response Inspired Cancer Eras Premises Capricious Tuberculosis

Book:Illness as metaphor

Source: Illness as metaphor

“[we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people.”

People Millions Century Disease Ancient Malaria Taming

Author:Margaret Chan

“Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.”

People Feels Reality Culture Emotion Century Tvs Disease Theater Pops Symbols Opera Idols Inability Twentieth Century Soap Soap Operas Movie Theater Clusters

Author:Jim Morrison

“The peril of this century is spiritual apathy. As the body requires sunlight, good food, proper exercise and rest, so the spirit of man requires the sunlight of the Holy Spirit; proper exercise of the spiritual functions; the avoiding of evils that affect spiritual health, that are more ravaging in their effects than typhoid fever, pneumonia, or other diseases that attack the body.”

Men Body Spiritual Spirit Evil Effects Century Exercise Holy Disease Function Holy Spirit Apathy Sunlight Avoiding Peril Fever Good Food Spiritual Health Pneumonia Typhoid

Author:David O. McKay

“For over a half century now I've watched office obesity develop into a full-blown, crippling disease. As our office clutter mounts, we're ever more intimidated and frustrated by it. We engineer drainage and removal of water and liquid wastes from society to prevent hazardous buildup, but the effluent that pours into our offices-paper-is never flushed out.”

Water Half Century Office Disease Waste Paper Engineers Frustrated Liquid Obesity Intimidated Clutter Removal Drainage

Book:The Office Clutter Cure

Source: The Office Clutter Cure

“If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.”