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“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.

“This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as for anatomy, my butcher can dissect a joint full as well; no, young man, all that is stuff; you must go to the bedside, it is there alone you can learn disease! Comment to Hans Sloane on Robert Boyle's letter of introduction describing Sloane as a 'ripe scholar, a good botanist, a skilful anatomist'.”

“To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. Sédillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body.”

Knows Way States Body Science Causes Term Knowledge Subjects Disease Method Agents Organisms Cultivation Contagion Microbes

Book:Scientific Papers; Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology

Source: Scientific Papers; Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology

“A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease, new machines based on brain function, further insights into our nature and how we know.”

Knows Age Brain Disease Majors Machines Function Foundation Insight Cures New Age Spawn Brain Function Brain Science

Author:Gerald Edelman

“I have a particular passion and focus on Alzheimer's and diseases of dementia. There's just so much scientifically that we don't know, and we can know.”

Knows Passion Focus Particular Disease Dementia Alzheimer Alzheimer's

Author:Miles D. White

“It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.”

Knows Persons Important Healing Health Disease Medicine

Author:Hippocrates

“I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.”

Knows Men Soul Reason Science Religion Evil Common Ignorance Disease Pernicious

Book:Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version

Source: Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version

“War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. AIDS is not an efficient killer because it is too slow. My favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. "We've got airborne diseases with 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that. "You know, the bird flu's good, too. For everyone who survives, he will have to bury nine”

“Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.”

Knows Mean Ends Common Music Disease Musician

Book:The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Eyery man out of his humor. Cynthia's revels. The poetaster

Source: The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Eyery man out of his humor. Cynthia's revels. The poetaster

“The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and political levers and pulleys set up generations ago to continue working on the behalf of whites at other people's expense, whether whites know/like it or not. Racism is an insidious cultural disease. It is so insidious that it doesn't care if you are a white person who likes Black people; it's still going to find a way to infect how you deal with people who don't look like you.”

“I'm obviously a typeomaniac, which is an incurable if not mortal disease. I can't explain it. I just love, I just like looking at type. I just get a total kick out of it: they are my friends. Other people look at bottles of wine or whatever, or, you know, girls' bottoms. I get kicks out of looking at type. It's a little worrying, I admit, but it's a very nerdish thing to do.”

People Ifs Knows Looks Littles I Can Girl Worry Type Disease My Friends Wine Bottom Mortals Things To Do Kicks Bottles Bottles Of Wine

Author:Erik Spiekermann

“I must have been born under an unlucky star. You know I have filled out entry blanks for every single drawing in the supermarket for the last twelve years, and the only thing I ever won was a coupon for a small little jar of tomato paste. But they were out of tomato paste, and by the time they got more in, my coupon had expired. And now I have venereal disease.”

Knows Years Littles Has Beens Lasts Stars Born Disease Filled Drawing Twelve Entry Jars Tomatoes Supermarkets Unlucky Expired Lucky Star Filled Out

Author:Louise Lasser

“The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. . . Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother.”

Knows Mother Disease Spread Clever Friendly Helpful Spiders My Best Friend Protective Unwanted Mosquitoes Very Clever Weavers Odes

Author:Louise Bourgeois

“It's funny, but many people don't understand why I draw so many games nowadays. They think my style must have changed but this is not the case at all. The answer to this drawing disease is that my favorite squares are e6, f7, g7 and h7 and everyone now knows this. They protect these squares not once but four times!”

People Thinking Knows Games Answers Cases Four Style Changed Protect Disease Draws My Favorite Drawing Squares

Author:Mikhail Tal