Epidemics Quotes - Page 10

• Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Love Is, Disease, Contracts

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• We have an epidemic of obese six-month-olds. We actually have an epidemic of obese newborns. They don't diet and exercise. How do you explain that? It's what the mother consumed. Well, who told her to do that? The obstetricians.

  Robert Lustig

  Mother, Exercise, Six Months

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• Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by which epidemic diseases contributed to the destruction of classical civilization. Christianity owes a formidable debt to bubonic plague and to smallpox, no less than to earthquake and volcanic eruptions.

  Hans Zinsser

  Christian, Civilization, Earthquakes

  Hans Zinsser (2011). “Rats, Lice and History”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

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• You can make a global film, which affects so many countries and affects sort of this worldwide epidemic, but it has, zombies are great metaphors for the times we live in today and that's what I always find fascinating about them, but then it's like the walking dead, you know, the unconscious, and the metaphors for them are just really something I was inspired by.

  Marc Forster

  Country, Walking Dead, Zombie

  Source: collider.com

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• Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal inmates are in for drug crimes.

  Michael Botticelli

  Alcohol, Drug, Half

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.

  Georges Didi-Huberman

  Photography, Memories, Hands

  Georges Didi-Huberman (2008). “Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz”, p.23, University of Chicago Press

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• We have a problem with drugs? Let's declare war on drugs! We have a problem with crime? Let's declare war on crime! We have a problem with violence? Let's declare war on violence! The deeply ingrained American attitude that we can solve any problem w/enough force creates, feeds, & rewards the epidemic of violence we are currently experiencing.

  Peter McWilliams

  Attitude, War, Drug

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• We now have a national security consideration, public health issues, we have an epidemic of heroine overdoses in all places in this country because of the ease of bringing heroine in. We have to secure the border.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, Issues, Borders

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• We're the end of the baby boomers, and we participated in many social changes. Who would of thought, for example, when the AIDS epidemic came along that so many would die, because it was gay people dying. And what emerged was a grassroots movement that developed, and succeeded in getting things done. The pinpointing of that movement evolved into the changes that we have today.

  Todd Haynes

  Baby, Gay, Aids Epidemic

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I'm not saying that McDonald's gift certificates caused the obesity epidemic, but in retrospect, the timing is kind of suspicious.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Mcdonalds, Obesity Epidemic, Retrospect

  Jim Gaffigan (2014). “Food: A Love Story”, p.213, Crown Archetype

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• I speak a lot about what I call "the trance of unworthiness" which is really epidemic in our culture, this sense of "I'm not enough," or "something's wrong with me." Most of us have some level of it because our culture has all these standards (handed down through our families) of what it means to be okay.

  Tara Brach

  Mean, Culture, Levels

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I will take on the epidemics of gun violence and campus sexual assault, so that everyone in America is safe and respected, no matter who they are, where they live, or who they love.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, America, Safe

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Larry [Kramer] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. But I don't think it changed anything between us.

  Kevin Sessums

  Loss, Thinking, Aids Epidemic

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• You wish that you could move more rapidly and you have setbacks. You know, the AIDS epidemic was a huge setback for Africa, and it's only through generosity that we've avoided that just completely crippling an entire generation there.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Aids Epidemic, Generosity

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• We have a massive heroin opioid epidemic problem in America, part of that is because of drugs coming from the cartels from the south.

  Paul Ryan

  America, Drug, Problem

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Crack epidemic] definitely has impacted folks in my family, most definitely. I think that's true for most, if not all people, regardless of color, that grew up in and around areas that were closer to the nucleus of the crack epidemic.If you look at Baltimore or D.C., Detroit, Chicago, Oakland, like, Los Angeles.

  Mahershala Ali

  Thinking, Color, Oakland

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.

  Bill Gates

  Would Be, Natural

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• That is something I try to stress to the wrestlers nowadays - there is an epidemic of spot monkeys in the business. They often are so concerned with the fans' reactions that they're willing to kill themselves, while I am trying to help them move past that. It is not about the move, it's about the moment you create, and that's what I'm doing through my broken brilliance.

  Matt Hardy

  Stress, Moving, Past

  Source: www.si.com

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• The devil is not fighting religion. He's too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. We are plainly told in the Scriptures that in the last days men will not endure sound doctrine and will depart from the faith and heap to themselves teachers to tickle their ears. We live in an epidemic of this itch, and popular preachers have developed “ear-tickling” into a fine art.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Teacher, Art

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• Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.

  Richard Pryor

  White, Drug, Calling

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• Starting epidemics requires concentrating resources on a few key area. The Law of the Few says that Connectors, Mavens, and Salesman are responsible for starting word-of-mouth epidemics, which means that if you are interested in starting a word-of-mouth epidemic , your resources ought to be solely concentrated on these three groups. No one else matters.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mean, Keys, Law

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• Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories arent often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc.

  Jill Lepore

  Order, Stories, Patterns

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• We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.

  Mary Calderone

  Baby, Polio Vaccine, Class

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• The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was created by existing saloons, and non-existing bright hearths, smiling wives, pretty caps and aprons. The cure was the patent nostrum of pledge-signing, a lying-made-easy invention, which like calomel, seldom had any permanent effect on the disease for which it was given, and never failed to produce another and a worse. Here the care created an epidemic of forgery, falsehood and perjury.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Lying, Wife, Care

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• Folks can look at this issue and read it and it can feel like medicine, it can feel epidemic. We wanted this to hit people in their gut, and the hope is that by doing that, we can get more people to think more deeply about these issues.

  Ava DuVernay

  Thinking, Issues, Medicine

  Source: deadline.com

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