Then Jesus called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out... to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some ...sort of conspiracy, have a clearly political analysis of the epidemic. But even if one attributes its cause to a microorganism rather than the wrath of God, or the workings of the CIA, it is clear that the way in which AIDS has been perceived, conceptualized, imagined, researched and financed makes this the most political of diseases.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is... confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers' stones, a s...overeign remedy to all diseases ... but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He could foretell whats'ever was By consequence to come to pass.... As Death of Great Men, Alterations, Diseases, Battels, Inundations. All this without th' Eclipse of Sun, Or dreadful Comet, he hath done By inward Light, a way as good,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pain and pleasure are infectious. It depresses us to be much with those who have suffered long and are still suffering; it refresh...es us to be with those who have suffered little and are enjoying themselves. But it is good for us to be depressed now and then.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism ... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the yo...ung.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Figure him there, with his scrofulous diseases, with his great greedy heart, and unspeakable chaos of thoughts; stalking mournful ...as a stranger in this Earth; eagerly devouring what spiritual thing he could come at: school-languages and other merely grammatical stuff, if there were nothing better! The largest soul that was in all England.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »