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“Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!”

Knows Wells Heart Persons Running Numbers Greater Risk Amount Disease Fats Diabetes Heart Disease

Author:Daniel Pinkwater

“A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.”

“Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt was a greater artist than your local sidewalk cartoon sketcher. Most people might regard this as obvious common sense but some of the intelligentsia may be seething with resentment at seeing their pet fetishes ignored.”

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

“Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.”

Way Made Half Cases Records Greater Disease Difficulty Posts Physicians Diagnosis One Half Insurmountable

Author:William Osler

“All over East Africa-indeed, all over Africa-it is normal for people to walk a kilometer or two or six for water. In more arid areas, people walk even greater distances, and sometimes all they find at the end is a pond slimy with overuse. More than 90 percent of Africans still dig for their water, and waterborne diseases such as typhoid, dysentery, bilharzia, and cholera are common. The bodies of many Africans are a stew of parasites. In some areas the wells are so far below the earth's surface that chains of people are required to pass up the water.”

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.”

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.”

Men Culture Term Wealth Effort Poverty Virtue Greater Ignorance Disease Degrees Labor Increase Instinct Hunger Vices Impulse Leisure Wealth And Poverty

Book:War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“In vegetables and fruits, God has infused medicinal power to help in overcoming disease. Even these, however, have but a limited potency. The organs of the body are essentially sustained by the energy of God, and the person who employs various methods to increase this energy will have at his command a greater power for healing than is afforded by any medicine or diet.”

Persons Helping Body Energy Healing Greater Disease Overcoming Increase Method Medicine Fruit Various Command Diets Vegetables Organs Potency Greater Power

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.”

Problem Greater Talent Disease Solutions Doctors Musical Cures Rapids Musical Talent

Author:Novalis

“There is no greater disease than the loss of hope.”

Loss Greater Disease

Author:Yisroel Salanter

“But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.”

Source: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.”

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.”

“How do women still go out with guys, when you consider the fact that there is no greater threat to women than men? We're the number one threat to women. Globally and historically, we're the number one cause of injury and mayhem to women... You know what our number one threat is? Heart disease.”

Knows Men Heart Stills Guy Causes Women Numbers Greater Disease Threat Profound Injury Heart Disease Mayhem

Author:Louis C. K.

“Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage”

Giving Nature Moral Greater Danger Disease Weakness Increase

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Those who have prophesied dreadful consequences as a result of the greater sexual freedom which the young assert - unwanted babies, venereal disease and so on - are usually the very same people who seek the fulfillment of their prophecies by opposing the free availability to the young of contraception and the removal of the stigma and mystification that surround venereal disease.”

People Young Sex Results Greater Baby Disease Consequence Fulfillment Surround Prophecy Opposing Stigma Unwanted Removal Availability Contraception Great Sex

Book:Anarchy in Action

Source: Anarchy in Action