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“The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.”

Long Helping Wife Disease Ease Help Me Muse

Author:Alexander Pope

“Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, like that of the Americas, is north/south rather than east/west. Those Eurasian domestic mammals spread southward very slowly in Africa, because they had to adapt to different climate zones and different animal diseases.”

Long Different Animal Disease West South Climate Species Spread East Zone Adopted Mammals Axes Livestock North Africa Different Animals

Author:Jared Diamond

“It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time-and long before that-God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.”

Long War Effort Drug Disease Solutions Treats Prison Jail Users Long Ago Alcoholism Alcoholics Toss Offenders

Author:Tom McCall

“I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure but the solitary communion with the 'mountains & the woods'-the 'altars' of Byron. I have thus rambled and dreamed away whole months, and awake, at last, to a sort of mania for composition. Then I scribble all day, and read all night, so long as the disease endures.”

Source: The Portable Edgar Allan Poe

“A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.”

May Long Seems Dies Left Behinds Comfort Disease Life And Death Left Behind Between Life And Death

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer cell is your own body, your own cells, just misbehaving and going a bit wrong, and you don't have to cure cancer. You don't have to get rid of all those cells. Most people have cancer cells swirling around inside them all the time and mostly they don't do any harm, so what we want to do is prevent the cancer from gaining control. We just want to keep it in check for long enough that people die of something else.”

People Want Long Ideas Enough Body Dies Bits Disease Cancer Harm Checks Cures Cells Get Away Misbehaving

Author:Paul Davies

“The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus.”

People Knows Long Done Form Cases Masters Disease Crisis Technique Reasoning Programming Software Invites Engineering Formal Guru Software Engineering Charlatans Quacks Incurable Disease

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine when they lack a clear understanding of disease mechanisms, that the deficiencies of the health-care system are most conspicuous. If I were a policy-maker, interested in saving money for health care over the long haul, I would regard it as an act of high prudence to give high priority to a lot more basic research in biologic science.”

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“Thanks to the scientific method, most people in "developed" countries have an outlook of mild deism. We assume things like weather and disease operate according to fixed natural laws. Every so often, though, problems impinge on us so directly that we stretch beyond that mildly deistic stance and ask God to intervene. When a drought drags on too long, we pray for rain. When a young mother gets a diagnosis of cervical cancer, we solicit prayers for her healing. We beseech God as if trying to talk God into something God otherwise might not want to do.”

“Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't curbed...We have no option. If it isn't controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.”

Ifs Humans Long War Growth Term Serious Disease Majors Survival Increase Threat Population Disaster Long Term Controlled Starvation Population Growth Human Population

Author:Prince Philip

“There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any means to further your cause, since the end justifies the means. As an international community, we must oppose this notion, whether it be in Canada, in the United States, or anywhere else. No cause justifies violence as long as the system provides for change by peaceful means.”