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• The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.

  Thomas Lovejoy

  War, Environmental, Break Out

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• Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

  Wendell Phillips

  Political, Pulse, Politics

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.152

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• The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, War, Yield

  "My Early Life: A Roving Commission". Book by Winston Churchill, 1930.

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• I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.

  John Keats

  Rose, Dew, Fading

  'La belle dame sans merci' (1820) st. 3

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• Bollywood stars are versatile; they not only act, but each one has the dance skills of John Travolta in 'Saturday Night Fever.'

  Christian Louboutin

  Stars, Night, Skills

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• May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.

  John Henry Newman

  Long, Giving, Support

  'Wisdom and Innocence' (19 February 1843), in 'Sermons Bearing on Subjects of the Day' (1843) no. 20

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• I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.

  Pierre Loti

  Memories, Eight, Years

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• All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.

  Alistair Cooke

  Running, Couple, Men

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• If you get an infection, you get a fever; the fever is your body dealing with the infection. If you get traumatized, your mind and your brain have a reaction to that trauma. If you're not dreaming about it, something's probably wrong.

  Sebastian Junger

  Dream, Mind, Brain

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• I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn't understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place.

  Brad Pitt

  Believe, Kids, Night

  "Brad Pitt: 'Moneyball,' Life And 'The Stalkerazzi'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 22, 2011.

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• If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it.

  John Cusack

  Dream, Thinking, Long

  "'I'm basically a brand'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2007.

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• What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

  Florence Nightingale

  Selfish, War, Nursing

  Florence Nightingale (2001). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

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• Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, Military, War

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever.

  Peter Drucker

  Running, Organization, People

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.94, Transaction Publishers

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• I'm playing second fiddle to Justin Bieber - Bieber Fever is sweeping our house, and my girls have made it clear I'm no longer their favourite man.

  Steven Gerrard

  Girl, Men, House

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was an executive before I was a producer, and I've seen franchise fever grow, over the course of my career. The one thing that people always forget is that it's only a franchise if audiences really want to see more of it. It's up to them. It's really not up to us.

  Nina Jacobson

  Careers, People, Want

  "Producer Nina Jacobson Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, Sequels, the Violence, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 12, 2012.

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• On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever by walking to the bank at Greenwich to get the money to which my father's letter of credit entitled me. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France, whose name was a common one, John Smith, took particular charge of me, removed me to Morristown, N. J., and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies who kept a boarding - house. To their skilful and untiring ministrations I may safely say I owe the prolongation of my life.

  John James Audubon

  New York, Men, Kind Man

  "Selected Journals and Other Writings".

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• A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch...

  Jimmy Fallon

  Reading, Scripts, Found

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. April 4, 2005.

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• I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

  Otis Blackwell

  Vegas, Publishing House, Gentleman

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• Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Eye, Blind, Mary

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “By the Shores of Silver Lake”

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• 'Saturday Night Fever,' Paula Abdul, 'Fame,' Debbie Allen... all affected me and the generation before me.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Night, Generations, Fame

  "Laurieann Gibson: 'We've Created a New Jerusalem' With Lady Gaga's 'Judas' Video". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2011.

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• I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!

  Daryl Hall

  Going Away, Bed, Flu

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• At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again.

  Robbie Keane

  Boys, World, Clubs

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• Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.

  Rider Strong

  Stress, Knowing, Cabins

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