Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Nature: that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer. ” — Stanley Norman Cohen Copy Share Image
“Could it not be contrived to send the smallpox among those disaffected tribes of Indians? We” — Bobby Akart Copy Share Image
Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Benjamin Franklin refused to have one of his children vaccinated against smallpox. The four-year-old boy died, and Franklin wrote later of how… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
How did we cure polio, smallpox and send a man to the moon? How did we decode the human genome in just… — Margaret Cuomo Copy Share Image
“One of the medical profession's greatest boasts is that it eradicated smallpox through the use of the smallpox vaccine. I myself believed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves,… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day… — Edward Jenner Copy Share Image
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
“Doctors generally consider smallpox to be the worst human disease. It is thought to have killed more people than any other infectious… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take… — Edward Jenner Copy Share Image
We have two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - again it's the instability that is a problem there. So over the next… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
Already published reports, as well as our own observations indicate that smallpox vaccination sometimes produces manifestations of leukemia. In children and adults… — Julian Aleksandrowicz Copy Share Image
Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
Certainly there was the Affordable Care Act part, then unaccompanied children [there has been a surge of children entering the country illegally… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell Copy Share Image
The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is no question but that perfect sanitation has almost obliteraed this disease, smallpox, and sooner or later, will dispose of it… — John Tilden M.D Copy Share Image
They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common… — George Amos Dorsey Copy Share Image
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox:… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
The physical signs of measles are nearly the same as those of smallpox, but nausea and inflammation is more severe, though the… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who… — John Green Copy Share Image
We have completely eradicated smallpox; we have almost eradicated polio. That's the miracle of vaccines, which is even greater than that of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Smallpox in a blanket, which the U.S. Army gave to the Cherokee Indians on their long march to the West, was nothing… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in… — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
In 1967, the world health community launched a global effort to eradicate smallpox. It took a coordinated, worldwide effort, required the commitment… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
“Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is… — John Green Copy Share Image
Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
“Tests showed there was no enrichment. “They’re just slinging purified uranium at us, straight from the mines,” Bob said. But the next… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and… — Naz?m Hikmet Copy Share Image
Smallpox can be personally devastating. After a 14-day incubation period, patients experience high fevers, headaches, and sometimes severe abdominal pain. A rash… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“I attained a triumph so complete that it is now rare to meet an American with marks of small pox on his… — Benjamin Waterhouse Copy Share Image
![“While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive…” quote by Edward Jenner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/913/edward-jenner-53486_calamity_while-the-vaccine-discovery-was-progress_904318.png)
![“We have two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - again it's the instability that is a problem there. So over the next several years, we expect to drive the number of [polio] cases back down to zero because that is likely to be the second disease after smallpox that we completely eradicate.” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/eed/bill-gates-137_afghanistan_we-have-two-other-countries-pakistan-and_978741.jpg)
![“Certainly there was the Affordable Care Act part, then unaccompanied children [there has been a surge of children entering the country illegally and without parents, particularly in Texas], and things like, we find smallpox in an NIH lab, after 50 years? Why didn't you find it, like, five weeks…” quote by Sylvia Mathews Burwell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cf4/sylvia-mathews-burwell-15780_affordable_certainly-there-was-the-affordable-care_1069584.jpg)
![“The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. [...] Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be…” quote by Maureen Dowd](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2fe/maureen-dowd-6927_arrogant_the-mayans-were-right-as-it-turns-out-wh_588586.jpg)
![“I attained a triumph so complete that it is now rare to meet an American with marks of small pox on his face... Benefits are valuable according to their duration and extent... but the benign remedy Vaccination saves millions of lives every century, like the [gift] of the sun, universal and…” quote by Benjamin Waterhouse](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3b8/benjamin-waterhouse-222781_american_i-attained-a-triumph-so-complete-that-it_471374.jpg)
