It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two… — Michael Specter 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
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
In 1980 we declared the globe free of smallpox. It was the largest campaign in United Nations history until the Iraq war.… — Larry Brilliant Copy Share Image
We're having a traditional Thanksgiving - turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Science, pure science, is leading us in a sense astray. Leading us astray with the idea that everybody has got to have… — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki 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
If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
With nuclear weapons, you'd think you would probably stop after killing 100million. Smallpox won't stop. Because the population is naïve, and there… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox. — David Gelernter 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
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
“Vaccination has made smallpox extinct in the wild, as well as rinderpest, a relative of measles that affects cattle and buffalo, among… — Chris von Csefalvay Copy Share Image
Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We do know that the Iraqi regime has chemical and biological weapons. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
A child who had been introduced to misery in Saudi Arabia, a teenager who went to wage jihad against the Soviets in… — Terry Hayes 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
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
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
Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the… — Jimmy Carter 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
