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• Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.

  Susan Sontag

  Disease, Mystery, Illness

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• Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

  Og Mandino

  Funny, Smile, Listening

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• Faith and optimism are contagious.

  Thom S. Rainer

  Faith, Optimism

  Thom S. Rainer (2001). “Surprising Insights from the Unchurched and Proven Ways to Reach Them”, p.197, Harper Collins

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• Astronomers do not commonly use Venereal, in favor of the less contagious-sounding Venutian. Blame the medical community, who snatched the word long before astronomers had any good use for it. I suppose you can't blame the doctors. Venus is the goddess of beauty and love, so she ought to be the goddess of its medical consequences.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Doctors, Beauty And Love, Long

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.33, Prometheus Books

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• ... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.

  Fannie Barrier Williams

  Class, Racism, Evil

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• Attitudes truly are contagious, and from time to time we need to ask ourselves, 'Is mine worth catching?'

  Mac Anderson

  Attitude, Needs, Catching

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• Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.

  Peter Watts

  Reality, Rose, Police

  Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.48, Macmillan

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• In a contagious world,we learn to keep our distance. If we get too close to those who are suffering, we might get infected by their pain. It may not be convenient or comfortable. But only when you get close enough to catch their hurt will they be close enough to catch your love.

  John Ortberg

  Hurt, Pain, Distance

  John Ortberg (2001). “Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart”, p.56, Harper Collins

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• Vaccination is a public health issue because influenza is a highly contagious disease. If you don't vaccinate your child, his or her schoolmates are much more likely to become ill. That is why some places (New York, for example) are making the vaccine mandatory for school children.

  Michael Specter

  New York, Children, School

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• By practicing the Five Agreements, what you are really doing is respecting everything in creation. You are respecting your dream; you are respecting everybody else's dream. If you use these tools, your effort is really for everyone, because your joy, your happiness, your peace, and your heaven are contagious. When you are happy, the people around you are happy too, and it inspires them to change their own world.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Dream, Agreement, People

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• Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.

  Peter Abelard

  Writing, Special, Disease

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• Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners.

  Robert Ardrey

  Communication, Animal, Expression

  ROBERT ARDREY (1961). “AFRICAN GENISIS”

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• Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.

  Anais Nin

  Happiness, Thinking, Joy

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• Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

  Honore de Balzac

  Evil, Sublimity

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• The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

  Eleanor Porter

  Beautiful, Heart, Character

  Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin

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• All it takes for a contagious manly culture to form is for one genuine man to live out genuine manhood. It creates a model, something for other men to feed upon and pattern themselves after. It also gives other genuine men a vital connection that sustains and extends who they are.

  Stephen Mansfield

  Men, Giving, Connections

  Stephen Mansfield (2013). “Mansfield's Book of Manly Men: An Utterly Invigorating Guide to Being Your Most Masculine Self”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

  Robert Harris

  Soul, Vampire, Spiders

  Robert Harris (1998). “Archangel: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Ethics, Good Things, Aesthetics

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Jan 13, 2012

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• Juanita Rose Violini's Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored is delightfully odd, wonderfully weird, and anything but normal. Filled with historical curiosities and esoteric advice, the book explains legends, the paranormal, and the people who experience the fringe. Have fun, but don't get too close this book may be contagious.

  Jeff Belanger

  Fun, Book, Rose

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• A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Results, Positive Attitude

  Zig Ziglar (1977). “See You at the Top”

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• Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

  P. D. James

  Writing, Bad Writing, Discrimination

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint.

  Washington Irving

  Poetry, Complaints, Poetry Is

  Washington Irving (1860). “The Works of Washington Irving: Tales of a traveller”, p.158

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• Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others. . . . Business is dependent upon action. It cannot go forward by hesitation. Those in executive positions must fortify themselves with facts and accept responsibility for decisions based upon them. Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.

  Heinz Hopf

  Business, Responsibility, Decision

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• A confidence man knows he’s lying; that limits his scope. But a successful shaman ropes himself first; he believes what he says — and such belief is contagious; there is no limit to his scope.

  Jubal

  Lying, Believe, Successful

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• Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Happiness, People, Everyday

  "Happiness: It Really Is Contagious". Interview, www.npr.org. December 5, 2008.

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