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If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.

—George W. Bush, 2005

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

—Thomas Mann, 1924

Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.

—Guy R. Williams, 1975

Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.

—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

—Susan Sontag, 1963

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

—Latin proverb

Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

—Helen Keller, 1936

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

—Marianne Moore, 1935

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

—Maria Edgeworth, 1833

If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.

—Anton Chekhov, 1904

All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.

—Jack London, 1912

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

—Samuel Johnson, 1750