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

—Jack London, 1912

The sick man is the parasite of society.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889

Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.

—David Riesman, 1937

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

—George W. Bush, 2005

The best quarantine is hygiene.

—Richard D. Arnold, 1871

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

—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989

We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.

—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845

It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.

—Adelle Davis, 1951

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

—Anton Chekhov, 1904

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

—Helen Keller, 1936

Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.

—Bian Qiao, c. 500 BC

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.

—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

—Richard Krause, 1982