“ The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. ”
- Leon Edel- Copy
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“ I think of her, two boys dying of tuberculosis, nursing four others she was a saint. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
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“ Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes, or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague. ”
- Gilbert Murray- Copy
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