Famous quotes containing the words national, breast and/or cancer:
“Ignorance, forgetfulness, or contempt of the rights of man are the only causes of public misfortunes and of the corruption of governments.”
—French National Assembly. Declaration of the Rights of Man (drafted and discussed Aug. 1789, published Sept. 1791)
“Now the nightingale, the pretty nightingale,
The sweetest singer in all the forests choir,
Entreats thee, sweet Peggy, to hear thy true Loves tale:
Lo! yonder she sitteth, her breast against a briar.”
—Thomas Dekker (1572?1632?)
“We need cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.”
—Gilbert Adair, British author, critic. Under the Sign of Cancer, Myths and Memories (1986)
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