Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and… — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks, and measureable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
You wish that you could move more rapidly and you have setbacks. You know, the AIDS epidemic was a huge setback for… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Probably because I personally knew at least six or seven people in Ross County who died from overdoses in the last three… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure too elaborately… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories arent often deadly, but they can be… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I've heard of many chocoholics, but I ain't never seen no "chocohol". We got an epidemic, people: people who like chocolate but… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be useful to explain the factors that actually allowed this to happen [Donald's Trump Presidency]. Like, for example, their frustration… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
There is a global epidemic where one out of three women will be beaten or sexually assaulted in their lifetimes? How are… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still… — Mary Calderone Copy Share Image
I speak a lot about what I call "the trance of unworthiness" which is really epidemic in our culture, this sense of… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
The country's 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
It is the world's first Ebola epidemic, and it's spiraling out of control. It's bad now, and it's going to get worse… — Tom Frieden Copy Share Image
War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
I have this very positive view of the world getting better and better. The list of things that could be huge setbacks… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Faith can be stirred within the walls of church buildings, but faith is formed and nourished in the waiting rooms of hospitals,… — Josh Ross Copy Share Image