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Disease

(noun) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired. Example: "The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered."

10 QUOTES
"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death."
— Rumi
"God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool."
— John Muir
"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
— Voltaire
"Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours."
— Voltaire
"Goodness is not the absence of disease. It is an intentional process for health."
— Elezabeth Symond
"Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all."
— Voltaire
"Every human being is the author of his own health or disease."
— Gautama Buddha
"War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody."
— Mother Teresa
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease"
— Thomas Jefferson

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