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• We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential...the earth has a fever. And the fever is rising...Indeed, without realizing it, we have begun to wage war on earth itself.

  Al Gore

  War, Civilization, Survival

  Al Gore's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2007.

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• Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their war policies. Thereby do they attempt to distract the public from pressing domestic matters, serve the overseas interests of U.S. investors, justify gargantuan military budgets, and present themselves as great leaders.

  Michael Parenti

  Military, War, Order

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• Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive . . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part . . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, War, Believe

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• The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

  Plutarch

  Strong, Wine, Men

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• Our planet has a rising fever. If the crib catches fire you don't say: 'Hmmm, how fast is that crib going to burn? Has it ever burned before? Is my baby flame retardant?'

  Al Gore

  Baby, Fire, Flames

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• Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious procession - celebrants in robes and pointed hats whirling and clapping and chanting the name of some old-world prophet, 'Hari, Hari! Hari Potter!'

  Philip Reeve

  Religious, Names, Potters

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• Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.

  May Sarton

  Pain, Winter, Force

  May Sarton (2014). “At Eighty-Two: A Journal”, p.73, Open Road Media

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• Give me a chance to create a fever and I will cure any disease.

  Parmenides

  Giving, Disease, Give Me A Chance

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• There's nothing revolutionary about Saturday Night Fever . You can see the same kind of movement at your local disco.

  Gene Kelly

  Night, Movement, Kind

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• ...unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the insidious onslaughts of the enemy nor can he damp down or hold in check the fevers which burn in our flesh with nature's fire.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Men, Fire

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• Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous. Quaint, when used to describe the occasional village through which they passed, meant fever-ridden and tumbledown. Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, mean 'idiot'.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Tourists, Use

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.101, Random House

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• So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain.

  Isaac Watts

  Change, Pain, Relief

  William Allen, Isaac Watts (1835). “Psalms and hymns for public worship: containing all the psalms and hymns of Dr. Watts which are deemed valuable, together with a new version of all the Psalms and many original hymns besides a large collection from other writers”, p.602

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• Then, we realize that the degraded cocoon we have been hiding in is revolting, and we want to turn up the lights as far as we can. In fact, we are not turning up the lights, but we are simply opening our eyes wider. We catch a certain kind of fever.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Change, Eye, Light

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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• Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics.

  Archie Kalokerinos

  Children, Vaccines, Antibiotics

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• Some can just knock it out and some have to lock themselves in a room and get to a fever pitch of self-loathing before they turn in a first draft. . . . each writer's process is screwed up in its own way.

  Warren Leight

  Self, Locks, Crafts

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• Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Ambition, Errors

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• ...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not strangers: our hands moved towards each other to embrace. I never heard his voice, for we did not speak; it is a shame, I should so like the memory of it. Loneliness, like fever, thrives on night, but there with him light broke, breaking in the trees like birdsong, and when sunrise came, he loosened his fingers from mine, and walked away, that misty boy, my friend.

  Truman Capote

  Memories, Loneliness, Night

  Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Ray Bradbury, James Baldwin, James Purdy (1962). “Some postwar American writers”

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• California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the land rush, the gold rush, the oil rush, the movie rush, the Okie fruit-picking rush, the wartime rush to the aircraft factories — followed, in each instance, by counter-migrations of the disappointed and unsuccessful, moving sorrowfully homeward.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Country, Moving, Land

  Christopher Isherwood, James J. Berg, Chris Freeman (2001). “Conversations with Christopher Isherwood”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.

  Ray Bradbury

  Digging, Vigor, Peaches

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• Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.

  Phil Gingrey

  Ebola, Migrants, Viruses

  "GOP congressman: Ebola could spread across the border". www.msnbc.com. July 15, 2014.

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• And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky and its quick blue, Drowning the fever of her hands in sunlight. She has no memory, nor fear, nor hope Beyond the grass and shadows at her feet.

  Hart Crane

  Dream, Memories, Blue

  Hart Crane (1966). “The complete poems and selected letters and prose of Hart Crane”, Anchor

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• I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Sports, Pneumonia, Average

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• From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Evil, Temptation

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.47

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• A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.

  Boris Pasternak

  Angel, Flames, Wings

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• Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Flu, Chill, Ends

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