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1 " To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it. "
― Lao Tzu
2 " Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life... "
― Tayeb Salih , Season of Migration to the North
3 " Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, 'cause it's gonna have a long day doing it. "
― Jim Beaver , Life's That Way
4 " Why did this disease choose me? I cannot carry it, if its just for the word: Fate. "
5 " Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day. "
― John Piper
6 " I think you’re wonderful. You’re the only person I have in this awful, twisted world, and it’s incredibly scary, but if I had to fight my way through this disease of a life with one person by my side, I’m glad it’s with you. You inspire me to be stronger, and I need to be strong. "
― Christina L. Barr , Almost Alive
7 " Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time. "
8 " For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends. "
