“ My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin. ”
- Bill Bryson- Copy
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“ There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure. ”
- Bernard Baruch- Copy
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“ Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions. ”
- David Hume- Copy
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“ There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure. ”
- Bernard Baruch- Copy
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“ Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ Laughter — An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when. ”
- Philip Roth- Copy
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“ I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. ”
- Abraham Joshua Heschel- Copy
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“ You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal level, and it is for this that men refuse to forgive you, you poison their peace of mind, you undermine their stability. You have irrepressible pains whose essence is to be inadaptable to any known state, indescribable in words… ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
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“ When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job… ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
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“ When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill organized… ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly, too, without a single stutter. Later he explained, "I don't stutter when I talk to God… ”
- Bennett Cerf- Copy
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“ There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
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