Outbreaks Quotes

• The level of outbreak is beyond anything we’ve seen - or even imagined.

  Tom Frieden

  Ebola, Levels, Stunning

  "CDC: ‘Window Is Closing’ on Containing Ebola" by Abby Haglage, www.thedailybeast.com. September 2, 2014.

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• The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.

  Fritz Kreisler

  War, Wife, Switzerland

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.9, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

  Lytton Strachey

  Peace, War, Brilliant

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.37, Delphi Classics

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• Provocation polio. That is the truth about those outbreaks of polio. And I offer a well considered personal opinion that polio is a man made disease.

  Viera Scheibner

  Men, Personal Opinions, Polio Vaccine

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• Health system development is a key to effective detection, response, and control of any outbreak.

  Margaret Chan

  Keys, Development, Health System

  "Are We Prepared? An Exclusive Interview with WHO Director-General Margaret Chan". “Next Outbreak” with Joanne Silberner, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2015.

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• Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

  Thucydides

  Spring, War, Anger

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• This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.

  David Nabarro

  Moving, Ebola, Effort

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• A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

  Karl Abraham

  Work, Numbers, Able

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• We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Ebola, Feels

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• We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak. The people who were around the patient are now being identified and traced by the CDC and by the state health authorities. ... you get people, you identify them, and you observe and monitor them daily to determine if they develop symptoms If they do, then you put them under isolation to determine if, in fact, they are infected. And if you do that properly, you can shut down any outbreak.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Ebola, People, Facts

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• All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.

  Margaret Chan

  Country, Pneumonia, Pandemics

  "WHO increases swine flu alert". www.abc.net.au. April 30, 2009.

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• Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted.

  Che Guevara

  Struggle, Popular Vote, Government

  Ernesto Guevara, Brian Loveman, Thomas M. Davies (1985). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.51, Rowman & Littlefield

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• To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Country, Important, World

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• There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.

  Mira Grant

  Past, People, Upset

  Mira Grant (2012). “Countdown: A Newsflesh Novella”, p.91, Hachette UK

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• An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.

  Charlotte Bingham

  Faces, Married, Pity

  "Lucinda". Book by Charlotte Bingham, 1966.

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• Time and again in this century, the political map of the world was transformed. And ineach instance a new world order came about through the advent of a new tyrant or the outbreak of a bloody global war, or its end.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Order, Tyrants

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• I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Play, Defense

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• On many occasions in the late 1950s and 1960s, [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas were apparently ignored by those who felt that his approach was too naive and prone to compromise. The outbreak of open warfare with the French and later with the United States was in effect a sign of the failure of Ho Chi Minh to achieve his objective to fight and win at low cost.

  William J. Duiker

  Fighting, Winning, Ideas

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• Only if there's an outbreak of the bubonic plague.

  Giovanni Trapattoni

  Soccer, Football, Bubonic Plague

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• California officials want to contain a measles outbreak that originated in Disneyland last month. They are in luck because everyone who is exposed to it is still in line at Space Mountain.

  Conan O'Brien

  California, Space, Luck

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• The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to communication industries hastened the consolidation of vernaculars, the rise of nationalism, revolution, and new outbreaks of savagery in the twentieth century.

  Harold Innis

  Religious, War, Communication

  Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.67, University of Toronto Press

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• The first rule of Zombieland: Cardio. When the zombie outbreak first hit, the first to go, for obvious reasons ... were the fatties.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Zombie, Firsts, Reason

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• To me there is nothing more fraught with mystery & terror than a remote Massachusetts farmhouse against a lonely hill. Where else could an outbreak like the Salem witchcraft have occurred?

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Lonely, Massachusetts, Mystery

  Letter to Elizabeth Toldridge (9 October 1931), in "Selected Letters III, 1929-1931" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 423), 1971.

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• Roger_Bacon" title="Roger Bacon">Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he would burn all the works of the Stagirite, since the study of them was not simply loss of time, but multiplication of ignorance. Yet in spite of this outbreak every page is studded with citations from Aristotle, of whom he everywhere speaks in the highest admiration.

  George Henry Lewes

  Ignorance, Loss, Feelings

  "Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science". Book by George Henry Lewes, 1864.

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• The Bucket List is a movie about two old codgers who are nothing like people, both suffering from cancer that is nothing like cancer, and setting off on adventures that are nothing like possible. I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens.

  Roger Ebert

  Cancer, Adventure, Dvds

  Roger Ebert (2010). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2011”, p.161, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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