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“For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.”

Disease Method Extremes Cures Restriction Suitable Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures

Book:The Genuine Works of Hippocrates

Source: The Genuine Works of Hippocrates

“Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.”

“The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance and self-centeredness which naturally alienates all old friends. Next comes a great desire for and belief in the importance of money above all else, a loss of the normal sense of humor and proportion and finally, in extreme cases, the abandonment of all previous standards of moral value.”

“The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive in touch. Has not the extreme cultivation of the commercial faculty permitted others as essential to national life, to be blighted by disease?”

Loss Essentials Disease Blind Extremes Sensitive Faculty Cultivation Commercialism

Author:Judith Ellen Foster

“The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.”

World Belief Poverty Disease Extremes Solve Mistaken Extreme Poverty Healthier Life

Author:Bill Gates

“Holman's world is a worst case scenario but it's healthy to examine extreme possibilities. If the technology that is used for genetic enrichment in Genus had been distributed equitably, across society, it could have been nirvana, a great world where people don't fear the diseases that we die from. The problems that arrive are more to do with resource hording than technology itself.”

People Ifs World Has Beens Problem Used Dies Cases Technology Worst Possibility Healthy Disease Resources Extremes Could Have Been Scenarios Enrichment Worst Case Scenario

Author:Jonathan Trigell

“The service of India means the service of those teeming millions steeped in poverty, ignorance and disease. To see that in my lifetime we can soften these harsh edges of extreme poverty and unleash a new economic and social revolution which will bring out the latent creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of our people, I think that's what I feel, I think.”

“The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.”

Firsts Looks Mean Whole Facts Eye Poverty Written Generations Disease Ocean Extremes Humanitarian Continents Extreme Poverty

Author:Bono

“We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.”

“Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.”

Earth Political Poverty Disease Extremes Terrorism Breeding Instability Ending Poverty Extreme Poverty Political Instability

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.”

Health Disease Philosophical Extremes Appropriate Remedy Communicable Diseases

Author:Hippocrates