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“Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that minor chord, disease. Say you are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words and make them true.”

Wells Interest Please Disease Tales Mortals Charm Minors Worn Chords Stale Dreary Malady

Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Where there is a wine-shop, there are the elements of disease and the frightful source of all that is at enmity with the interests of the workmen.”

Interest Source Disease Elements Wine Shops Enmity Workmen

Author:Charles Forbes Rene de Montalembert

“The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.”

“Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.”

“Diseases don't respect borders. You know, just at the edge of the American border, that isn't the edge of diseases. We need to be sure that we're looking worldwide. And it is in our security interest, as well as our moral interest, to pay attention to the rest of the world.”

Knows World Needs Wells Interest Pay Attention Moral Security Disease Edges Pay Attention Borders

Author:Laura Bush

“The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.”

Real Character Facts Interest Disease Approach Concerned Therapy Curse Treatment Neurosis Pathology Numinous

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“Anyone who wants to pretend that your Huntington's disease is an invention is someone who does not have your best interests at heart.”

Want Heart Doe Interest Disease Invention Best Interests At Heart

Author:Mallory Ortberg

“There's a book called Mummy and the people actually seem to have become addicted to mummy dust. And mummy dust was somehow made from people who've died of the most loathsome diseases. It's too bad that [David] Cronenberg didn't see this book, see I only saw it after the film was made. It might have been of interest to him.”

People Has Beens Made Book Seems Might Film Interest Saws Disease Died Dust Made It Might Have Been Mummy

Author:William S. Burroughs

“All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.”

Interest Expression Disease Interest In Life Disease And Death Communicable Diseases

Author:Thomas Mann

“Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.”

Real Political Interest Materials Disease Tyranny Ideology Aliens Promoting Vested Interests Political Ideology Takeovers Authoritarian Government

Book:Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Source: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

“The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~”

“Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease”

People War Self Dies Interest Disease Self Interest

Book:Parable of the Talents

Source: Parable of the Talents

“I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.”

Thinking Interest Blessing Disease Intense Bored Dullness Interest In Life

Book:Daniel Deronda

Source: Daniel Deronda