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“The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.”

People Needs Littles Ends Law Bits Goal Natural Vision Rights Failing Disease Little Bit Noble Disaster Fairness Dealings Natural Disaster

Author:Scott Turow

“Doctors should first understand the cause of disease, then treat it with diet. Medicine should only be used if diet fails”

Ifs Should Firsts Used Causes Failing Disease Doctors Treats Medicine Diets

Author:Sun Simiao

“End-stage liver disease refers to a liver that's failing, and a very high percentage of those livers are what we call cirrhotic, or the patient's liver has become cirrhotic, and what cirrhosis is, is the scarring of the liver tissue.”

Ends Failing Stage Disease Patient Percentages Liver Tissues Scarring Cirrhosis Liver Disease

Author:John Roberts

“What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I am in the fields I am overwhelmed by a feeling of loneliness to such a horrible extent that I shy away from going out. But this will change all the same as time goes on. Only when I stand a painting before my easel do I feel somewhat alive. Never mind, this is going to change too, for now my health is so good that I suppose the physical part of me will gain the victory.”

Needs Feels Mind Facts Feelings Alive Failing Loneliness Fields Painting Goes On Victory Disease Gains Horrible Shy Going Out Overwhelmed Time Goes On

Book:Van Gogh, letters from Provence

Source: Van Gogh, letters from Provence

“Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower.”

People Use Brain Moral Failing Drug Disease Addiction Willpower Bad People

Author:Michael Botticelli

“When the liver is diseased, the eyesight fails; when the kidneys are diseased, the hearing is adversely affected. The disease is not visible, but its effects are. Therefore, enlightened people, wishing to be free from obvious faults, first get rid of hidden faults.”

People Firsts Wish Failing Effects Disease Faults Obvious Hearing Visible Enlightened Taoism Affected Liver Kidneys Diseased Eyesight

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.”

Hard Faces Work Failing Drug Disease Consequence Tests Overcoming Abuse Prepared Substance Going Away Substance Abuse

Author:Lindsay Lohan

“We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.”

Ifs Knows Enough Whole Deals Poverty Failing Land Disease Tasks Neighbor Being True Nevertheless Ugliness Whole Truth

Book:It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays

Source: It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays

“But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. 'This Man Died from Living Too Much'.”

Men Heart Father Too Much Meditation Failing My Heart One Day Disease Died Iron Not Afraid Greedy Tombstone Crabs

Book:gilt-edged bonds

Source: gilt-edged bonds

“A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor.”

Ifs Children Young Mother Poor Failing Disease Impact Mortality Killers Commodity Adequate Inadequate Delivery Young Children Tokens Infectious Diseases Health System

Author:Margaret Chan

“If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community.”

Ifs Home School Form Community Healing Poverty Violence Failing Broken Disease Treats Heal Isolation Unemployment Symptoms Ending Poverty Broken Homes

Author:Barack Obama

“The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would seem to be a pursuit of the physician as harmless as it is indispensable. [But] it seemed irresistibly rational to certain minds that diseases should be as fully classifiable as are beetles and butterflies. This doctrine ... bore perhaps its richest fruit in the hands of Boissier de Sauvauges. In his Nosologia Methodica published in 1768 ... this Linnaeus of the bedside grouped diseases into ten classes, 295 genera, and 2400 species.”

“The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is that there be multiple food chains, so that when any one of them fails-when the oil runs out, when mad cow or other food-borne diseases become epidemic, when the pesticides no longer work, when drought strikes and plagues come and soils blow away-we'll still have a way to feed ourselves.”

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World