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quotes by topic Cancer

" Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time. "

David R. Brower

Will , Man , Love , Time , Cancer

" Get up every day, love God, and do your best. He will do the rest! "

Cancer

" I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer. "

Cancer , Knows

" The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves. All that they do, they do only for their own sake. For these self- centered individuals, the most precious things in the world is their ‘self.’ Like a cancer that eats and destroys its own cells, the self-centered individual is slowly dying inwardly. "

Cancer , Self

" To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer. "

Government , Cancer , Jobs

" Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. "

Cancer , Depression

" There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they tell you that you have, say, a 20 percent chance of living five years, the math kicks in and you figure that‚Äôs one in five . . . so you look around and think, as any healthy person would: I gotta outlast four of these bastards. "

Cancer , Humor , Life

" I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn‚Äôt tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You‚Äôre a woman. Now die.) "

Cancer

" Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of. "

Death , Cancer

" I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die. "

Death , Cancer

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