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“The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.”

Mean Revolution Disease Skins Driven Organisms Monarchy

Author:Maxim Gorky

“Avoid the necessity of a physician, if you can, by careful attention to your diet. Eat what best agrees with your system, and resolutely abstain from what hurts you, however well you may like it. A few days' abstinence, and cold water for a beverage, has driven off many an approaching disease.”

Ifs Wells May Water Hurt Attention Health Cold Disease Agree Careful Driven Diets Physicians Abstinence Beverages Cold Water

Author:Lydia M. Child

“Why were we driven out of Paradise? Why did we fall into this gnawing disease of unappeasable dissatisfaction? Not because we sinned. Ah, no. All the animals in Paradise enjoyed the sensual passion of coition. Not because we sinned. But because we got sex into our head.”

Fall Passion Sex Sin Animal Disease Driven Sensual Enjoyed Paradise Dissatisfaction

Book:Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus

“Fear is like the strong medicine used to fight serious diseases; it purges, but it also alters your temperament and wears out the body organs. A person who is driven by fear will always be the weaker for it”

Persons Body Used Fighting Strong Serious Disease Medicine Driven Organs Temperament

Author:Francois Fenelon

“If somebody is working on a new medicine, computer science helps us model those things. We have a whole group here in Seattle called the Institute for Disease Modelling that is a mix of computer science and math-type people, and the progress we're making in polio or plans for malaria or really driven by their deep insights.”

People Ifs Whole Helping Progress Plans Groups Type Disease Computer Models Medicine Insight Math Driven Institute Computer Science Seattle Malaria Modelling Polio

Author:Bill Gates

“He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them. Between them they killed a virulent space disease he'd picked up without knowing it in the Flargathon Gas Swamps a few days earlier, which otherwise would have killed off half the population of the Western Hemisphere, blinded the other half, and driven everyone else psychotic and sterile, so the Earth was lucky there.”

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose. We are even free to choose the wrong thing.”

Knows Different Ends Feelings Would Be Love Is Crazy Disease Driven Chosen Cures Better Off Wrong Things Escaping Different Roads Maybe Love

Book:Requiem

Source: Requiem

“Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy, and the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.”