“Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this has not yet been translated into treatments that can help cure patients. These treatments will come - tomorrow, or the day after.” HelpingNumbersCasesParticularHugeTomorrowDiseaseScientistMajorityPatientCuresTreatmentLinksDnaHuge Numbers Author:Charles C. Mann
“I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social workers, bricklayers) can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. (Meanwhile, the irrelevance of each profession increases, in proportion to its increasing rigidity.) Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows.” IfsWorldSocialGrowsNumbersGroupsParticularMetsLuckyDemandDiseaseIncreaseWorkersRoundsVariousProfessionProportionHaltUnemployedSubwayProfessionalismPresent DayConductorSocial WorkerRigidityOligarchyIrrelevanceBricklayers Author:Ted Nelson
“We have the tendency to judge others by their surface appearance, and to find only their negative qualities. But if we search beneath the surface we discover that a myriad of strains mix together to create a particular person's nature. The faults we perceive are likely to be the effect of circumstances, the psychological response to trauma, abuse, rejection, heartbreak, insecurity, pain, confusion, or disease.” IfsPersonsPainTogetherQualityEffectsParticularJudgingCircumstancesDiseaseNegativeAbuseFaultsResponseAppearanceTraumaSurfaceConfusionTendenciesPsychologicalPerceiveRejectionInsecurityStrainBeneath The Surface Author:Radhanath Swami
“Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.” ThinkingMenNeedsShouldPersonsSeemsCausesConditionsMankindHuman NatureParticularDiseaseSurpriseCorruptionPleasantGood ManLiableDisagreeable Book:The Nicomachean ethics Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so were just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.” MenTryingHas BeensDangerousParticularDiseaseLowsVisibilityTotems Author:Barry Manilow
“We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.” WayHas BeensSufferingDiesCultureParticularTerribleDiseaseTerrible Things Author:Alan Watts
“Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.” WarSoulEvilVirtueParticularDiseaseClothesVicesCorruptionWoodsEnvyDestroyedDestructiveIronWormsConsumingProhibitionRustMothsDestructive Power Author:Menander
“Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.” PeopleMovingSocialMemoriesDecisionStepsDyingCarStyleFrontsParticularTomorrowDrugDiseaseJudgmentErrorsBunchMottoMisuseLife Style Book:A Scanner Darkly Source: A Scanner Darkly
“It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.” FormSufferingParticularDiseaseMedicineExtraordinaryConclusionAdvertisementsPatentsExtraordinary ThingsAdvertising Agencies Author:Jerome K. Jerome
“Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.” ThinkingMenIdeasPassionMeditationParticularDiseaseCapacityMeditating Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of a virus... Religion is a terrific meme. That's right. But that doesn't make it true and I care about what's true. Smallpox virus is a terrific virus. It does its job magnificently well. That doesn't mean that it's a good thing. It doesn't mean that I don't want to see it stamped out.” ThinkingWantMindWellsMeanDoeCareJobsAtheismParticularDiseaseCatholicGood ThingsI CareTerrificVirusesMemesRoman CatholicSmallpoxEpidemiologyCatholic Religion Author:Richard Dawkins
“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.” KnowsPassionFocusParticularDiseaseDementiaAlzheimerAlzheimer's Author:Miles D. White