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Quotes About Curing

There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging Rome, gathering followers. In a way, there's nothing unique about what Jesus did. In fact, many of these so-called false Messiahs we know by name.
~ Reza Aslan
They turned into wrong and destructive paths believing that they were better than others whose belief in self-interest was open and expressed, better because they, and they alone, knew how the practical affairs of the planet should be conducted. An emotional reaction to the sufferings of Shikasta seemed to them a sufficient qualification for curing them.
~ Doris Lessing
Curing environmental ills requires not a stance outside nature, but a stance within nature, a role not as onlooker without, but as an actor within.
~ Valerius Geist
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
~ Albert Camus
The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.
~ Babatunde Fashola
It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks.
~ John Yoo
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
~ Albert Camus, The Plague
Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.
~ Austin O'Malley
While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the patient.
~ Murray Rothbard
No man need curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.
~ Djuna Barnes
No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.
~ Djuna Barnes
I have decided to leave Facebook and Oculus to work on curing diseases using some new imaging technologies I've been incubating for awhile.
~ Mary Lou Jepsen
A leap of faith is required if we are to believe that nonviolence can heal a violent world, that turning the other cheek when struck, instead of striking back, can end a fight. We need faith to believe that by loving our enemy we can eventually transform him into an ally; that even when nonviolence fails to achieve peace, it can succeed in curing hate.**
~ Robert Lawrence Smith
We believe that, by the time that we leave office, it will be institutionalized, and these programs will be addressing the needs and curing the problem that we set out to do.
~ Alphonso Jackson
If there is one thing I loathe, it's a reformer. A reformer is a man who sees the superficial ills of the world and proposes curing them by making the more deep-seated ills still worse.
~ Fernando Pessoa
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
~ Michel Foucault
We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.
~ Anais Nin
Treatment should result in, as the remarkable life, not the terrible that than diseases itself; otherwise, it defines and verifies, as the termite of life that collapses silently; unfortunately, medical trading prevails than curing.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.
~ Austin O'Malley
Rumors spread of possible salt substitutes. In 1862, there was a rumor of a substitute for curing bacon and beef. A newspaper in Alabama reported that pyroligneous acid, a vinegar made from hard wood, could preserve meat.
~ Mark Kurlansky
Albert Hofmann once put it . . . All attempts today to make amends for the damage through environmentally protective measures must remain only hopeless, superficial patchwork, if no curing of the "Western entelechy neurosis" ensues. . . . Healing would mean existential experience of a deeper, self-encompassing reality.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
Calming ain't curing, is it, girl?" the woman asked aloud. "Keeping you hushed might keep me out of jail, but sure as the world, calming ain't curing.
~ Jonathan Odell
Calming ain't curing, is it, girl?
~ Jonathan Odell
Our own foreign policy was a factor in aggravating international disorder through its sincere but naive endeavor of curing the evils of the world by spreading representative institutions in the elemental sense to areas where the existential conditions for their functioning were not given.
~ Eric Voegelin