Elon Musk

If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

South African Businessman

Joe Rogan

What's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the universe, about ourselves, about our bodies, about diseases, about the possibilities of the future. It's amazing. Science is one of the coolest things about being a human being - without a doubt.

American Comedian

Yuvraj Singh

I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.

Indian Athlete

Sophocles

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

Greek Poet

Megan McKenna

I'm always going to have Coeliac disease, it's a serious thing and it's life changing.

English Celebrity

Thomas Mann

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

German Writer

William Lyon Phelps

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

American Educator

Vinnie Jones

Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised.

British Actor

Julie Bowen

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

American Actress

Abraham Cowley

English Poet

Refers to actual illnesses or disorders affecting the body or mind, not metaphorical issues.

Physical Ailment

Most often used in healthcare and medicine to discuss symptoms and treatments.

Medical Context

Can imply chronic or acute conditions; some diseases can be lifelong, others temporary.

Severity and Duration

Used metaphorically to describe a negative quality that 'infects' a person's character.

Metaphorical Illness

When used figuratively, it has a strong negative implication about a person or society.

Negative Connotation

Figurative use doesn't relate to actual sickness but to harmful behaviors or thoughts.

Not Literal

Implies a widespread issue affecting the community or society, needing a 'cure' or solution.

Societal Problems

Using 'disease' in this way delivers a powerful message that something is very wrong.

Strong Message

Unlike physical diseases, these 'diseases' refer to problems at a larger, collective level.

Not Individual

 and more activity in certain regions when engaging a second language. The heightened workout a bilingual brain receives throughout its life can also help delay the onset of diseases, like Alzheimer's and dementia by as much as five years. The idea of major cognitive benefits to bilingualism may seem intuitive now,

The benefits of a...

 But the plague also had an important biological impact. The sudden death of so many of the most frail and vulnerable people left behind a population with a significantly different gene pool, including genes that may have helped survivors resist the disease. And because such mutations often confer immunities

The past, present and...

 he heard a dairy maid say, "I shall never have smallpox, for I have had cowpox. I shall never have an ugly, pockmarked face." Cowpox is a skin disease that resembles smallpox and infects cows. Later on, as a physician, he realized that she was right, women who got cowpox didn't develop

How we conquered the...

 that's 20 percent of the entire world, will have a neurological disorder. And there are zero cures for these diseases. And so it seems that what we should be doing is reaching back earlier in the eduction process and teaching students about neuroscience so that in the future,

How to control someone...

 The story of smallpox, the first and, so far, the only disease to be permanently eradicated from the world, shows how disease eradication can happen and why it is so difficult to achieve. Smallpox emerged in human populations thousands of years ago

Learning from smallpox:...

 sent home with a diet a prescription and a little booklet about my disease and as i dug into it i learned a dirty little truth two actually the first says in america if you're diagnosed with type 2 diabetes you carry the same health risk

The psychological weight...

 Sober reminder of how deadly this disease is. My twin sister Audrey, she had such a big heart. Growing up, we used to call each other our built-in best friends for life. 'Cause we always thought that we would have each other,

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 Recent studies have found that sitting for long periods is linked with some types of cancers and heart disease and can contribute to diabetes, kidney and liver problems. In fact, researchers have worked out that, worldwide,

Why sitting is bad for...

 Like yellow fever or dengue, the disease caused by the Ebola virus is a severe type of hemorrhagic fever. It begins by attacking the immune system's cells and neutralizing its responses, allowing the virus to proliferate.

What we know (and don't...

 over 70 percent of the entire world population is in one park in india and if that park got hit by disease flooding civil war it could be disastrous and if that happened captive-bred rhinos like behan's baby

Disease