Contagious Quotes - Page 11

• Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Sleep, Done, Unnatural

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• Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

  William James

  Character, Mean, Organization

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.

  Amit Ray

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• Faith is contagious when we show it to one another.

  Catherine Doherty

  Faith, Shows

  Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Mary Achterhoff (1992). “Grace in every season: through the year with Catherine Doherty : daily reflections”, Servant Pubns

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• Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Liberty, Emulation, Example

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• Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.

  George D. Prentice

  Courage, Cowardice, Liable

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• Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it's necessary to being a leader.

  Rick Hillier

  Powerful, Optimism, Leader

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• Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sick, Together, Vices

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• You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.

  Curt Siodmak

  People, Superstitions

  "Fictional character: Paul Holland". "I Walked with a Zombie", www.imdb.com. 1943.

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• Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Example, Doe

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• Divorce is contagious. That's right - when you have a close couple friend split up, it increases your chances of getting a divorce by 75 percent.

  Jenna McCarthy

  Couple, Divorce, Splits

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• Creative energy manifests in the 'aura' of the environment - the distinct atmosphere, quality and 'air of the place.' It has a contagious effect on people. When we walk into the environment, we know immediately whether or not the energy is present. Most of us need communities as sources of motivation and vitality; and in keeping with the basic movements of energy in nature, people charge one another in positive and negative ways.

  Shaun McNiff

  Motivation, Air, People

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• If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  My Thoughts, Greater, Acquire

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel like a mystery that is inviting us in. Sagan's great art lesson for me was generosity of wonder and making curiosity contagious.

  Dario Robleto

  Art, Generosity, Curiosity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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