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I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma. - J.B

I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma. – J.B.S. Haldane

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced. – J.B.S. Haldane

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Martyr, Martyrdom
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Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things – Lance Armstrong

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We need cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. – Gilbert Adair

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Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire. – W. H. Auden

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Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene — in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses. – Susan Sontag

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