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• Fear breeds upon itself because it is a hermaphrodite capable of endless reproduction. Fear is a contagious disease, spreading from its first victim to others in the vicinity until it is powerful enough to take charge of a group, in which event it becomes panic. Fear is the afterbirth of reason and calculation. It takes time to recuperate from fear.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Powerful, Fear, Groups

  Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, Simon & Schuster

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• The temptation to entertain instead of selling is contagious.

  David Ogilvy

  Temptation, Selling

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• Passion pushes you to learn more, create more and to create better. Best of all, it's contagious.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Passion

  Twitter post from Dec 10, 2013

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• Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.

  Eve Ensler

  Dance, Moving Forward, Space

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• A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious.

  Napoleon Hill

  Attitude, Sick, Mind

  Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2008). “Timeless Thoughts for Today”, p.144, Jaico Publishing House

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• Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.

  James Stewart

  Fear, Mistake, Judgment

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• You could say that evil is contagious in that we have this mesmerizing mentor in Uncle Charlie who comes into your life. Every person has a seed of evil inside them, and when you come across such a mesmerizing mentor, he is able to successfully turn it into a flower of evil.

  Park Chan-wook

  Uncles, Flower, Evil

  "Park Chan-wook, Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode Talk STOKER, First Impressions to the Script, Reactions to the Completed Film and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 24, 2013.

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• I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

  Steve Earle

  Thinking, Democracy, Obvious

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• Peter glanced up at the stars and a wicked smile lit his face. "Time to play," he whispered to the stars and winked. And the stars winked back, for Peter's smile is a most contagious thing.

  Brom

  Stars, Play, Wicked

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• We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious. If we smile at someone, he or she will smile back. And a smile costs nothing. We should plague everyone with joy. If we are to die in a minute, why not die happily, laughing? (136-137)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Change, Laughing, Bird

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• A great teacher is not simply one who imparts knowledge to his students, but one who awakens their interest in it and makes them eager to pursue it for themselves. He is a spark plug, not a fuel pipe. The reason colleges exist is to bring students into contact with contagious personalities, for otherwise they might as well be correspondance schools.

  Edmund Ware Sinnott

  Teacher, School, College

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• All vigor is contagious.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Vigor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.184

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• Passing is contagious. There's nothing better than making the pass that gives someone an easy hoop.

  Jason Kidd

  Giving, Easy, Passing

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• Humor of all types is notoriously subjective. That's true not only between different people but even within an individual at different times. This subjectivity is often masked when your in a group because laughter is contagious.

  Robert Mankoff

  Laughter, People, Groups

  "Ask the Author Live: Robert Mankoff on the Cartoon Issue". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Grief is as contagious as a yawn.

  Sue Grafton

  Grief

  Sue Grafton (2011). “V is for Vengeance”, p.81, Penguin

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• Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fiction, Stories, World

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• That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Epidemics, Order, Movement

  "How to start an epidemic" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.theguardian.com. 2000.

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• For Peter's smile is a most contagious thing.

  Brom

  Peter

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• I can’t touch him. (Jared) Well, don’t you suck. (Stryker) Oh, believe me, I couldn’t agree more. Just be grateful it’s not contagious. (Jared)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Grateful, Wells

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• Do I make you nervous, Madame Lambert?” “No. I just prefer to keep my distance.” “Evil isn’t contagious.” “I thought you said you weren’t the most evil man in the world?” “I’m not. But that doesn’t mean I’m a good man.” “I don’t think anyone would argue with that.

  Anne Stuart

  Distance, Mean, Men

  Anne Stuart (2007). “Ice Storm”, p.87, MIRA

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• Jarrid Wilson has a passion and heart for God that is contagious. His genuine faith comes through powerfully in his teaching and writing. 30 Words points to the God of all wonder and grace in a way that will expand your faith and experience of God.

  Jud Wilhite

  Teaching, Passion, Writing

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• Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they're scared for the fear to become real. Mo was terrified, and now Nick was too.

  Neil Gaiman

  Real, Scared, Sometimes

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.115, A&C Black

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• Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Uncles, Niece, Book

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• Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.

  Elie Wiesel

  Soul, Sickness, Indifference

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.89, Schocken

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• It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious." I just lost my appetite," he declared.

  Brandon Mull

  Fun, Book, Grandma

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