Disease can never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's wailful screaming or faith's cymballic prayer. It can only be co...nquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;... If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understan...d this sickness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here is the real domino theory: Gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall d...own and someday it will come to you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty little secret is that the ra...llying cry is a whisper.... The great unspoken on the heterosexual AIDS front has been how behavior is still determined by the old psychosexual minuet of the sexes, the lack of responsibility in young men and of assertiveness in young women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny their children pr...otection so that they could safeguard their own self- image. Or maybe we'll just seem like a bunch of lunatics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Panurge was of medium stature, neither too large, nor too small ... and subject by nature to a malady known at the time as "Money-...deficiency,"Ma singular hardship; nevertheless, he had sixty-three ways of finding some for his needs, the most honorable and common of which was by a form of larceny practiced furtively.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I no longer fit in with these times. Great changes can come in four years. These socialistic notions of government are not of my d...ay. When I was in office, tax reduction, debt reduction, tariff stability and economy were the things to which I gave attention. We succeeded on those lines.... These new ideas call for new men to develop them.... We cannot put everything up to the Government without overburdening it. I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease.... I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So, when my days of impotence approach, And I'm by pox and wine's unlucky chance... Forced from the pleasing billows of debauch On the dull shore of lazy temperance, My pains at least some respite shall afford While I behold the battles you maintain When fleets of glasses sail about the board, From whose broadsides volleys of wit shall rain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »