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“Avoid the company of the wicked, those who would do injury to you or to others. Like a disease their energy is something you can catch.”

Energy Company Buddhism Disease Purity Wicked Injury

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One of the problems is that the notion of cancer has been so normalized. You hear about it so often, and it's not ok... it's not ok to normalize this disease. And with all of the pinkwashing that goes on where companies are selling products based on breast cancer month it's a lovely gesture, but consumers get so used to it that it becomes more normal.”

Has Beens Problem Used Company Products Months Goes On Disease Normal Notion Cancer Lovely Selling Consumers Breasts Gestures Breast Cancer Selling Products

Author:Jennifer Beals

“Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.”

Knows Want Company Know How Virtue Society Disease Resources Vices Dare Prize Contagious

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Some people don't want to know that very little progress has been made. It is in the same way that companies are selling their products (i.e. the billion dollar cosmetic industry), they can package the message of femininity and normalization around this disease.”

People Knows Way Want Littles Has Beens Made Company Progress Products Industry Disease Messages Dollars Billions Selling Made It Femininity Packages Cosmetics

Author:Ravida Din

“The pink campaign has also served to "normalize" and depoliticize the disease and that makes it less threatening for a LOT of companies to jump onboard and claim breast cancer as their cause.”

Causes Company Disease Claims Cancer Campaigns Breasts Threatening Breast Cancer

Author:Ravida Din

“anyone own a disease? I was also startled at the level of hypocrisy. How can a leading make up company not sign onto the "Campaign for Safe Cosmetics" and at the same time promote itself as leading the fight against breast cancer?”

Fighting Levels Company Safe Disease Cancer Campaigns Hypocrisy Breasts Breast Cancer Cosmetics

Author:Ravida Din

“If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.”

Ifs Song Three Found Company Accepting Huge Disease Cures Theme Prize Nobel Nobel Prize

Author:John Ritter

“Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.”

Ifs Way Party Company Disease Let Me Claims Relation Recovery Outcomes Rare Diseases

Book:The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes far too late but still we must all welcome it. It can be the beginning of clearing the air.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999

“Drug companies spend more on advertising and marketing than on research, more on research on lifestyle drugs than on life saving drugs, and almost nothing on diseases that affect developing countries only. This is not surprising. Poor people cannot afford drugs, and drug companies make investments that yield the highest returns.”

“No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.”

Company Virtue Health Disease Vices Health Care Contagious

Author:Charles Caleb Colton