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Health and Disease

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#  ·  ---- Unrated  ·  submitted 1999 by Smilee J.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anaïs Nin, in Health and Disease and Love and Hate

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (11 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by Stephen

All these nervous breakdowns are driving me crazy.

Lee Hawkins, in Health and Disease

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (46 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Health and Disease and Life and Death

The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (10 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

A hospital is no place to be sick.

Samuel Goldwyn, in Health and Disease

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (10 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

I've never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much about his soul.

Haldane, in Health and Disease and Vice and Virtue

#  ·  ---- Unrated  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.

Unknown, in Health and Disease

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (9 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

When dealing with the insane, it is best to pretend to be sane.

Herman Hesse, in Health and Disease

#  ·  ---- Unrated  ·  submitted 1997

Sanity is the playground for the unimaginative.

Unknown, in Health and Disease

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