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The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are absolutely, the strongest in our being: stronger than any impulses, stronger than disease.
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Health is infinite and expansive in mode, and reaches out to be filled with the fullness of the world; whereas disease is finite and reductive in mode, and endeavors to reduce the world to itself.
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Ask not what disease the person has, but rather what person the disease has.
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Diseases have a character of their own, but they also partake of our character; we have a character of our own, but we also partake of the world's character.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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July 9, 1933
Died:
August 30, 2015
(aged 82)
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