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• Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

  Henry Rollins

  Adolescence, Senses

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• Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

  St. Jerome

  Men, Clergymen

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• You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or they're blaming you for the plague, nothing is easier to pack than a sense of humor.

  Lenny Bruce

  Laughter, Pay, Sense Of Humor

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Gossip is a plague that consumes weak, gullible people and blinds them from the truth of reality; it can devour entire city's. I prefer keeping my eyes wide open.

  David Spade

  Eye, Reality, Cities

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• That provision in the constitution which requires that the president shall be a native-born citizen (unless he were a citizen of the United States when the constitution was adopted,) is a happy means of security against foreign influence, which, where-ever it is capable of being exerted, is to be dreaded more than the plague.

  St. George Tucker

  Mean, President, United States

  Sir William Blackstone, St. George Tucker, Edward Christian (1803). “Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference, to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States; and of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In Five Volumes. With an Appendix to Each Volume, Containing Short Tracts Upon Such Subjects as Appeared Necessary to Form a Connected View of the Laws of Virginia, as a Member of the Federal Union”, p.323

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• Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and egotism. Eliminate all of it. It is the plague of Big Business.

  Suzy Kassem

  Children, Mind, Pay

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• From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone else, to flaunt your intelligence and insights instead of every band sounding alike, like what plagues punk music in particular today.

  Jello Biafra

  San Francisco, Different, Band

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?

  Peter Stone

  Simple, Earthquakes, Despair

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• Every time I bring an album it's like I'm bringing in the plague, once again. I don't actually know what category it all falls into, but I've stopped worrying about it.

  Scott Walker

  Fall, Worry, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Just as plagues were visited on Pharaoh so will pestilences and disasters be visited on the white man. Why, it has already started: God has begun to send them heat when they expect cold; he sends them cold when they expect heat. Their crops are dying, their children are being born with all kinds of deformities, the rivers and lakes are coming out of the belly of the earth to wash them away.

  Malcolm X

  Children, Men, White Man

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Essence, Agony

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• The plague of gold strikes far and near.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Gold, Strikes

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1852). “The Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.273

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• To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

  Alice Walker

  War, Immature, Should

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.36, New Press, The

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• Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro. If something is worth hearing or listening to, it's very probably worth reading. So, this above all: Find your own voice.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Reading, Grandmother, Boys

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Swans, Would Be

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• Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. De-accession euphemisms. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

  William Safire

  Editing, Long, Sound

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• Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.

  John H. McWhorter

  Writing, Issues, Insecurity

  John H. McWhorter (2001). “The Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "pure" Standard English”, p.62, Basic Books

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• Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.

  Lauren Willig

  Nice, Needs, Headache

  Lauren Willig (2011). “The Secret History of the Pink Carnation”, p.38, Allison & Busby

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• If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude get stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

  John Green

  Jesus, Cancer, Kids

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• Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague.

  Karen Chance

  Country, Century, Folks

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.1735, Penguin

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• The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its dilatory length but one meaning in the eyes of history. It freed the country from the social plague which until then had made political development impossible in the United States. More and more, as the years pass, does the meaning stand forth as the sole meaning.

  William James

  Country, War, Military

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• Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.

  Steig Larsson

  Genius, Might, Social

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• about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.91, A&C Black

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• Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ears, Imagine

  "Casting Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby?" by Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. August 31, 2008.

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• He'd always thought Roag was one rat short of a plague.

  Larissa Ione

  Rats

  Larissa Ione (2009). “Desire Unchained: A Demonica Novel”, p.34, Hachette UK

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