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• Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

  P. D. James

  Writing, Bad Writing, Discrimination

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• All it takes for a contagious manly culture to form is for one genuine man to live out genuine manhood. It creates a model, something for other men to feed upon and pattern themselves after. It also gives other genuine men a vital connection that sustains and extends who they are.

  Stephen Mansfield

  Men, Giving, Connections

  Stephen Mansfield (2013). “Mansfield's Book of Manly Men: An Utterly Invigorating Guide to Being Your Most Masculine Self”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Faith and optimism are contagious.

  Thom S. Rainer

  Faith, Optimism

  Thom S. Rainer (2001). “Surprising Insights from the Unchurched and Proven Ways to Reach Them”, p.197, Harper Collins

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• Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.

  Peter Watts

  Reality, Rose, Police

  Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.48, Macmillan

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• Attitudes truly are contagious, and from time to time we need to ask ourselves, 'Is mine worth catching?'

  Mac Anderson

  Attitude, Needs, Catching

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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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• 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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• 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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• Emotion is contagious.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Entrepreneur, Emotion

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• A confidence man knows he’s lying; that limits his scope. But a successful shaman ropes himself first; he believes what he says — and such belief is contagious; there is no limit to his scope.

  Jubal

  Lying, Believe, Successful

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

  Brom

  Peter

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now.

  Josephine Humphreys

  Empathy, Needs, Mood

  Josephine Humphreys (2000). “The Fireman's Fair”, p.50, Penguin

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• And Peter laughed, and when he did, all the Devils grinned, because Peter's laugh was a most contagious thing.

  Brom

  Laughing, Devil, Peter

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• Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

  Robert Harris

  Soul, Vampire, Spiders

  Robert Harris (1998). “Archangel: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Ethics, Good Things, Aesthetics

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Jan 13, 2012

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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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• 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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• Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others. . . . Business is dependent upon action. It cannot go forward by hesitation. Those in executive positions must fortify themselves with facts and accept responsibility for decisions based upon them. Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.

  Heinz Hopf

  Business, Responsibility, Decision

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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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• Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.

  Peter Abelard

  Writing, Special, Disease

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