Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
Folks can look at this issue and read it and it can feel like medicine, it can feel epidemic. We wanted this… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal… — Michael Botticelli Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that McDonald's gift certificates caused the obesity epidemic, but in retrospect, the timing is kind of suspicious. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
There is no firm dividing line between what is an epidemic and what is not an epidemic, but I think, when you… — Julie Gerberding Copy Share Image
“The conditions necessary for devastating epidemics or pandemics just didn't exist until the agricultural revolution. The claim that modern medicine and sanitation… — Cacilda Jethá Copy Share Image
NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
Starting epidemics requires concentrating resources on a few key area. The Law of the Few says that Connectors, Mavens, and Salesman are… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When I first came up, the whole AIDS epidemic was starting, and the gay community that I experienced from the beginning of… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated. ... This… — John Rosemond Copy Share Image
I think racism is a bottom-line AIDS issue. And I think homophobia is a bottom-line AIDS issue, and sexism and class issues… — Ann Northrop Copy Share Image
There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive. — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
We have a massive heroin opioid epidemic problem in America, part of that is because of drugs coming from the cartels from… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism,… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet,… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
There's a huge AIDS epidemic in Africa, and one of Bad Boy's plans this year is to give more awareness to that.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Thanks partly to their long history of fighting epidemics, Hong Kong also has some of the world's most prominent experts in infectious… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases… — Jared Diamond 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
Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about… — Tate Taylor Copy Share Image
How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The Caribbean is the region in the Americas worst affected by the epidemic of NCDs. These diseases are responsible for over two-… — Freundel Stuart Copy Share Image
War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this… — Laura Ziskin Copy Share Image
If there was an epidemic, that definitely would make people accept vaccines. I wouldn't hope for that, of course, but if you… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Without effective human intervention, epidemics and pandemics typically end only when the virus or bacteria has infected every available host and all… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
