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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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• 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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• Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

  Marva Collins

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

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• Let your kids observe you doing random acts of kindness, it can be contagious

  Kevin Heath

  Kindness, Kids, Parenting

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• Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Happiness, People, Everyday

  "Happiness: It Really Is Contagious". Interview, www.npr.org. December 5, 2008.

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• The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

  Eleanor Porter

  Beautiful, Heart, Character

  Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin

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• In a contagious world,we learn to keep our distance. If we get too close to those who are suffering, we might get infected by their pain. It may not be convenient or comfortable. But only when you get close enough to catch their hurt will they be close enough to catch your love.

  John Ortberg

  Hurt, Pain, Distance

  John Ortberg (2001). “Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart”, p.56, Harper Collins

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• Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners.

  Robert Ardrey

  Communication, Animal, Expression

  ROBERT ARDREY (1961). “AFRICAN GENISIS”

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• Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.

  Novalis

  Clever, Opponents, Way

  "Pollen and Fragments". Book by Novalis. Fragment No. 105, 1798.

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• Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint.

  Washington Irving

  Poetry, Complaints, Poetry Is

  Washington Irving (1860). “The Works of Washington Irving: Tales of a traveller”, p.158

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• By practicing the Five Agreements, what you are really doing is respecting everything in creation. You are respecting your dream; you are respecting everybody else's dream. If you use these tools, your effort is really for everyone, because your joy, your happiness, your peace, and your heaven are contagious. When you are happy, the people around you are happy too, and it inspires them to change their own world.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Dream, Agreement, People

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• Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Society, Vices, Disease

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.128

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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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• 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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• Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

  Og Mandino

  Funny, Smile, Listening

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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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• The message of individual liberty and peace is contagious.

  Vince Vaughn

  Liberty, Messages, Individual

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• Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.

  Anais Nin

  Happiness, Thinking, Joy

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• Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

  Honore de Balzac

  Evil, Sublimity

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• The temptation to entertain instead of selling is contagious.

  David Ogilvy

  Temptation, Selling

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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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• 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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• 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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• A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Results, Positive Attitude

  Zig Ziglar (1977). “See You at the Top”

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