Quote by Aldous Huxley Download Open image ““The Russian technique for infecting water supplies was particularly ingenious.” Back”” — Aldous Huxley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an epoch in… — Charles-Edward A. Winslow Copy Share Image
“The story goes that Russian winter clothes, when introduced into a common latrine, start fermenting when in contact with urine and feces and where there is fermentation there is alcohol too. Nobody knows who it was who dared to boil and then distill this fermenting sewage but someone must have because cheap alcohol lovers got to drink it. "They probably… — Florin Grancea Copy Share
Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for… — James Forrestal Copy Share Image
“If truth prevails, the contributions of a courageous physician and a brilliant engineer to the conquest of waterborne disease will still be remembered in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively than any… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
“A nineteenth-century Russian novel and vodka accompanied each other perfectly.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“What? Read more Russian history? It’s bloody and it’s tragic and best served with a lot of vodka. Trust me.” — Heather Long Copy Share Image
“No one had forgotten how in 1885 fouled water had ignited an outbreak of cholera and typhoid that killed ten percent of the city’s… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
The procedure has a strange Alice-in-Wonderland quality. The reservoir was created as a public water supply, yet the community, probably unconsulted about the sportsmen's… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards. — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical. — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Then what’s time for?” asked Lenina in some astonishment. Apparently, for going on walks in the Lake District; for that was what he now proposed. Land on the top of Skiddaw and walk for a couple of hours in the heather. “Alone with you, Lenina.” “But, Bernard, we shall be alone all night.” Bernard blushed and looked away. “I meant,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
