Epidemics Quotes - Page 3

• The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.

  Bill Gates

  Ebola, Wake Up, Warning

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• Ebola has shown that the world is not ready to deal with an epidemic on this scale.

  Alpha Conde

  Inspiring, Ebola, World

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• The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in a group activity banking on the epidemic spread of shared ideals needs to be particularly cognizant of the perils of the bigness. Crossing the 150 line is a small change that can make a big difference.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Small Changes, Differences, Church

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• If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress.

  Tom Harkin

  Children, School, Obesity Epidemic

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• More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity is already epidemic in some areas and on the rise in others. Worldwide, an estimated 17.6 million children under five are said to be overweight.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Children, Childhood, Adults

  Morgan Spurlock (2006). “Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America”, p.65, Penguin

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• The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African- American men, more than the next nine causes put together. So we have to do two things, as I said. We have to restore trust. We have to work with the police. We have to make sure they respect the communities and the communities respect them.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Men, Two

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.

  Julian Assange

  Law, Use, Firsts

  "Sean Hannity Is Now a Big Julian Assange Fan". Interview, www.slate.com. September 7, 2016.

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• Do we now fight for the kind of passionate belief that I have about sexuality, about the importance of the erotic, of people actually getting to fulfill desire and not be punished because they have it? No, we're nowhere near close to that. We're dealing with an AIDS epidemic that continues out of control globally and in this country, NO, THIS IS NOT the movement that I am fighting to create. Has it succeeded in places that are very significant? Yes it has - and it would be foolish to say that those things don't matter.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Country, Fighting, Aids Epidemic

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing. Our knowledge allows us to make use of all the forces already in existence, our art to interpret emotions already felt. One big war, an epidemic, and we collapse into ignorance and darkness, fit sons of chimpanzees.

  Arshile Gorky

  Art, War, Ignorance

  Arshile Gorky, Matthew Spender (2009). “Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents”

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• The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure too elaborately scientific, if once disrupted by war, revolution, natural cataclysm or epidemic, might collapse into a chaos not easily rebuilt.

  F. L. Lucas

  War, Insecurity, Fundamentals

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• ... we've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty, sixty, or seventy--all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics--many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.

  Gloria Steinem

  Fear, Self, Average

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.407, Open Road Media

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• Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!

  Tate Taylor

  Married, Homosexual, South

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• What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.

  David Levithan

  Girl, Teenage, White

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• We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Cancer, Thinking, Disease

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• Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of conspiracy, have a clearly political analysis of the epidemic. But even if one attributes its cause to a microorganism rather than the wrath of God, or the workings of the CIA, it is clear that the way in which AIDS has been perceived, conceptualized, imagined, researched and financed makes this the most political of diseases.

  Dennis Altman

  Wrath, Political, Majority

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• As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary function, cardiac output, and helps wiring the musculature. So, if we had a rampant epidemic of self-love then our healthcare costs would go down dramatically. So, this isn't just some little frou-frou new age notion, oh love yourself honey. This is hardcore science.

  Christiane Northrup

  Love, Inspirational, Doctors

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• The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible agents and innocent germ carriers, by the most varied forms of contact, or simply by breathing the common air.

  Arthur Koestler

  Book, Air, Breathing

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• It has always been the role of government to help solve problems, including and especially health crises. Obesity is a health epidemic across our country, and we have a responsibility as a government and a society to do all we can to promote good nutrition and healthy eating so we can reverse this alarming trend.

  Richard Codey

  Country, Responsibility, Government

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• Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around it s Outer Walls.

  Mervyn Peake

  Wall, Taken, Mean

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.12, The Overlook Press

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• Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Numbers, Disease

  "Cancer: The beat of an ancient drum?" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2011.

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• Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.

  Tom Harkin

  Government, Years, Childhood

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• If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Issues, Care, Disease

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• Epidemic obesity is unquestionably a health crisis in the United States, and for that matter, in much of the world. But it is a crisis in slow motion, one that has crept up on us over years, and even decades.

  David L. Katz

  Years, United States, World

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• I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

  Michael Specter

  Writing, Medicine, Aids Epidemic

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• If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.

  Sarah Schulman

  People, Identity, Hiv

  Source: www.esquire.com

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