“ Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. ”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn- Copy
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“ The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them. ”
- Agnes Repplier- Copy
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“ Great writers arrive among us like new diseases — threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. ”
- Craig Raine- Copy
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“ This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement — that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it — that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like. ”
- Jonas Salk- Copy
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“ Against diseases here the strongest fence, Is the defensive vertue, abstinence. ”
- Robert Herrick- Copy
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“ We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety. ”
- Joshua Loth Liebman- Copy
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“ Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them. ”
- Hippocrates- Copy
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“ The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of its diseases is called man. ”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche- Copy
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“ Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. ”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn- Copy
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“ A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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“ Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
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“ No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ”
- Jacob Bronowski- Copy
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“ A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection. ”
- Alexander Cockburn- Copy
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“ REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured $100 million into it… ”
- Ralph Nader- Copy
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“ From a medical point of view, negative thinking supresses the immune system, raises the blood pressure, and creates a general level of stress and fatigue in the body. In short, infections, cardiovascular irregularities, the degeneration of muscles, and the random growth of unwanted cells get more opportunity. ”
- Peter McWilliams- Copy
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