“We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.” UnderstandingMoralCuttingDiseaseCapableMadnessTownsSpreadLondonInnocentFormerBombsLatterRealismCiviliansAtomic BombDepravitySlumsMoral Depravity Book:The Snowman: Harry Hole 7 Source: The Snowman: Harry Hole 7
“We're the victims of a disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the law and order league are scouring out the dregs of the town. C'mon be a glorified wreck like me.” ChildrenLawOrderSocialDiseasePrejudiceTownsVictimDearLike MeMy ChildrenLeagueWrecksLaw And OrderDregsStagecoaches Author:Dudley Nichols
“Our ancestors, when about to build a town or an army post, sacrificed some of the cattle that were wont to feed on the site proposed and examined their livers. If the livers of the first victims were dark-coloured or abnormal, they sacrificed others, to see whether the fault was due to disease or their food. They never began to build defensive works in a place until after they had made many such trials and satisfied themselves that good water and food had made the liver sound and firm, healthfulness being their chief object.” IfsFirstsMadeSoundWaterDarkObjectsDiseaseArmyTownsVictimFaultsDuesTrialsSatisfiedChiefsPostsFirmAncestorSiteCattleLiverAbnormal Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“If one of us, any of us, any American is traveling in a town somewhere in America and a medical crisis hits them, for someone who is diabetic or perhaps has heart disease or some other problems, where do we get the records to determine what to do?” IfsHeartProblemAmericaRecordsDiseaseTownsCrisisDetermineMedicalHeart Disease Author:Timothy Murphy
“Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty, of most that are young and of many old, are wasted. Here diseases, vicious habits, bastards and legislators are frequently spawned.” CountryYoungRevolutionHabitDiseaseTownsObservationDozenModestyViciousAmerican RevolutionLegislatorsTaverns Author:John Adams
“I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease.” ThinkingKindDiseaseSummerTownsSmall TownVictorianVictorian Times Author:Rod Serling
“and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else.” PeopleIfsWayWould BeCommunityCenturyDiseaseTownsCharacteristicsSuspicionSomewhere ElseTwentieth Century Author:Wendell Berry
“I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I want to stop that moment from coming - and it come in ever white child's life - when they start to think that colored folks ain't as good as whites. ... I pray that wasn't her moment, Pray I still got time.” ThinkingWantChildrenStillsMomentsGirlSidesWhiteColorBabyPrayingDiseaseRacismTownsFolksDirtyLoudThat MomentI PrayBaby Girl Book:The Help Source: The Help
“[Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the East and West coasts without knowing the state, much less the town or street the house is on.” TryingStatesLightScienceHouseKnowingStreetsDiseaseResearchTownsWestEastRelatedGenesBurnedCoastScratchesBulbsWest CoastLight BulbEast And WestBurned Out Author:Francis Collins
“The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.” TwoScienceNatureCommonEnemyPiecesTearsDiseaseTownsMedicineUnityFactionsCommon Enemy Author:Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey