Smallpox Quotes
49 quotes by 35 authors
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their…
— William S. Burroughs
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The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the…
— Jimmy Carter
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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
— Woody Allen
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The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common fate of the…
— George Amos Dorsey
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While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the…
— Edward Jenner
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Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
— Richard Dawkins
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It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think…
— Richard Dawkins
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I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of a virus... Religion…
— Richard Dawkins
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One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many…
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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We do know that the Iraqi regime has chemical and biological weapons. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons - including VX,…
— Donald Rumsfeld
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The physical signs of measles are nearly the same as those of smallpox, but nausea and inflammation is more severe, though the pains in the…
— Avicenna
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When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any…
— H. L. Mencken
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Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.
— Stanley Norman Cohen
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During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I…
— George Bernard Shaw
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At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Smallpox in a blanket, which the U.S. Army gave to the Cherokee Indians on their long march to the West, was nothing compared to what…
— Michael Savage
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Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus,…
— Richard Preston
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Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.
— Larry Brilliant
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True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.
— Charles Studd
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