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Health



According to your medical records, you're an engineer. We classify that as a disease now.
[From a Dilbert cartoon by Scott Adams, 2011]

If I had known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
[Original author unknown]

Only psychotics are not neurotic.
[From Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here by Joseph Heller, 1998]

The more Polly read and studied Gus, the more convinved she became that the only thing wrong with him was that he was spending $25 a week going to a psychoanalyst. And she asked herself whether that could be a disease, a form of hypochondria, and whether you would have to go to an analyst to be cured of it.
[From The Group by Mary McCarthy, 1954]

If you'd told our ancestors 200 years ago that the poorest people in society would also be the fattest, they would have been unable to work out how.
[From Grumpy Old Men by Stuart Prebble, 2004]

If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
[Hippocrates, 460 BC to 370 BC (uncertain)]


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