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Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

— Larry Kramer

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✓Similar Perspectives

AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.

— Luc Montagnier

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.

— Ice T

AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

— Yusuf Hamied

AIDS is a complex situation that's sure to bring out the best and the worst in people.

— Niki de St. Phalle

It's important not to lose sight of the fact people of all sorts are still putting themselves at risk. It happens to straight and gay, single and married. I have never been comfortable thinking of AIDS as something that 'other people' get.

— Brande Roderick

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

— Susan Sontag

AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.

— Ryan White

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

— Sam Kinison

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

— Bill Gates

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

— Calvin Klein

✗Opposing Perspectives

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