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• This problem will knock on the doors of all of us, whether through uncontrolled and unmanageable migration flows, by means of diseases and epidemics, as a result of the conflicts generated by poverty and hunger, or as a result of events which are today unforeseeable.

  Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla

  Mean, Doors, Events

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• The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is that there be multiple food chains, so that when any one of them fails-when the oil runs out, when mad cow or other food-borne diseases become epidemic, when the pesticides no longer work, when drought strikes and plagues come and soils blow away-we'll still have a way to feed ourselves.

  Michael Pollan

  Running, Blow, Oil

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.

  Albert Einstein

  Passion, Eye, Intelligent

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• Crucially we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness, with the Earth & every other living thing; we have just been insanely trying to figure out how to live with each other, billions of each other, only we're not living with each other our crazy selves are living with each other, and perpetuating an epidemic of disconnection.

  Thandie Newton

  Crazy, Self, Oneness

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• I don't know … but I think this Ebola epidemic is a form of population control.

  Chris Brown

  Thinking, Ebola, Population

  Twitter post from Oct 13, 2014

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• We cannot run away from the TB epidemic. It is a moral injustice.

  Michel Sidibe

  Running, Moral, Injustice

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• The Caribbean is the region in the Americas worst affected by the epidemic of NCDs. These diseases are responsible for over two- thirds of deaths, much sickness and ill health, resulting in an unsustainable burden on our fragile economies.

  Freundel Stuart

  Two, Ill Health, Disease

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• The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.

  C.L. Bryant

  Men, Black, Crime

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• We are spending millions, if not billions of dollars every year on programs to fight the childhood obesity epidemic while giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries to make the epidemic worse.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Fighting, Years, Obesity Epidemic

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• The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Tipping, Answers

  "How to start an epidemic" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2000.

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• Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian nation, it became a genuine drama. Tens of millions of our co-citizens and co-patriots found themselves outside Russian territory.

  Vladimir Putin

  Drama, Russia, Territory

  "Prince Charles is right: Similarites between Putin and Hitler are uncanny" Rep. Trent Franks, www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2014.

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• During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Credit, Eczema, London

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• There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or anything else that's legal. There are only criminal gangs fighting over territories covering drugs, gambling, prostitution, and other victimless crimes. Making a non-violent activity a crime creates a black market, which attracts criminals and gangs, which turns what was once a relatively harmless activity affecting a small group of people into a widespread epidemic of drug use and gang warfare.

  Harry Browne

  Fighting, Drug Use, Gambling

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• Family violence is an entrenched epidemic that we've lived with since time began, so we've got a long way to go. But I do believe the tide is turned. It's no longer a subject that only occurs behind closed doors

  Rosie Batty

  Believe, Doors, Long

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• There is a hidden epidemic threatening the lives of millions of Americans...hunger. In this land of plenty, it is unthinkable that fellow citizens are going hungry. Included among these millions are children who, due to malnourishment, are not developing to their full potential intellectually, emotionally or behaviorally. The fortunate must provide for the unfortunate.

  Swoosie Kurtz

  Children, Land, Full Potential

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• The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions.

  Tony Porter

  Motivation, Inspiration, Men

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• When I first arrived in beautiful Zimbabwe, it was difficult to understand that 35 percent of the population is HIV positive. It really wasn't until I was invited to the homes of people that I started to understand the human toll of the epidemic.

  Kristen Ashburn

  Beautiful, Home, Zimbabwe

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• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change.

  Monica Raymund

  Gay, Bisexual, Teens

  "Making ‘A Better Holiday’" by Monica Raymund, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.

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• Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

  Peter Høeg

  Viruses, Disease, Whining

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.215, Macmillan

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• We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.

  Bill Gates

  People, Community, Malaria

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on Flying Cars, the Malaria Epidemic, and Article-Writing Robots". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 16, 2013.

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• In countries around the world, waistlines are expanding so rapidly that health experts recently coined a term for the epidemic: globesity.

  Laurie Cunningham

  Country, Experts, World

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• In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to which cities have become deserted and the land has ceased to yield fruit, although there have neither been continuous wars nor epidemics...For as men had fallen into such a state of pretentiousness, avarice, and indolence that they did not wish to marry, or if they married to rear the children born to them, or at most as a rule but one or two of them, so as to leave these in affluence and bring them up to waste their substance, the evil rapidly and insensibly grew.

  Polybius

  Children, War, Men

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• The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows and Amazons are deprived of the freedom to roam that was one of the delights of childhood in earlier times (when the actual, as opposed to the perceived, risk of molestation was probably no less).

  Richard Dawkins

  Hysteria, Childhood, Parent

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.355, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject to illnesses of the nervous system which are veritable epidemics of the life of the soul.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Men, Soul, Depth

  Rudolf Steiner (2013). “The Essential Rudolf Steiner”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.

  Jonas Salk

  Self, Entrepreneur

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