In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“One marker, which I would read a bit later on, tells the familiar story of Narcissa Whitman, "trail-blazer and martyred missionary," who… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Throughout Asia and Europe, pearls were traditionally believed to ease a range of conditions, including eye diseases, fever, insomnia, 'female complaints', dysentery,… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
Your file was empty. Nothing. Not even an immunization record.” He didn’t even pretend to look surprised. He eased back in his… — Becca Fitzpatrick 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
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
Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the… — William Lilly Copy Share Image
Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria,… — Archie Kalokerinos Copy Share Image
Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles. But people with more understanding… — Francis Schaeffer 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
Worrying about inflation now is like worrying about the measles when you might get the plague. — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just want people to know the facts and science and the information... measles is preventable. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I saw the most frightening, most depressing sight I had ever seen - a row of stores with Stars of David and… — Harpo Marx Copy Share Image
Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more… — Rose George Copy Share Image
“Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
