Measles Quotes

• Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.293, Princeton University Press

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• Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Love, Teenage Love, Love Is

  Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) "On Being in Love"

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• I just want people to know the facts and science and the information... measles is preventable.

  Barack Obama

  People, Want, Information

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• Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Love You, Love Is

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• Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Kids, Dying

  "Bill Gates: Vaccine-autism link 'an absolute lie'". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2011.

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• Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Love, Life, Romance

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• When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Children, Vaccines, Remember

  "Dr. Anthony Fauci: Risks From Vaccines Are 'Almost Nonmeasurable'". "Frontline" Interview, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2015.

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• Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.

  Olive Schreiner

  Humanity, Gone, Slavery

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• Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.

  Jared Diamond

  Literature, World, Disease

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• Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

  Melinda Gates

  Children, Polio Vaccine, Vaccines

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

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• Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Funny, Golf, Should

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Clicking of Cuthbert”, p.55, The Floating Press

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• Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.

  Peter Singer

  Children, Malaria, Disease

  "Tackling poverty in hard times" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.

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• Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Life, Men, Done

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Uneasy Money: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.236, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Habit, Contagious, Bad Habits

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.35, BookBaby

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• Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.

  William Lilly

  Talking, Years, Age

  William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.17

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• It is well known that measles is an important development milestone in the life and maturing processes in children. Why would anybody want to stop or delay the maturation processes of children and of their immune systems?

  Viera Scheibner

  Children, Important, Delay

  Viera Scheibner (1993). “Vaccination: 100 Years of Orthodox Research Shows that Vaccines Represent a Medical Assault on the Immune System”, Co-Creative Designs

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• Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Funny, Life

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• Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.

  Jared Diamond

  Animal, Pigs, Camels

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• My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination. This process was especially magnified within the fevers of influenza, measles, chickenpox, and mumps. I got them all and with each I was privileged with a new level of awareness. Lying deep within myself, the symmetry of a snowflake spinning above me, intensifying through my lids, I seized a most worthy souvenir, a shard of heaven’s kaleidoscope.

  Patti Smith

  Lying, Imagination, Heaven

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.5, A&C Black

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• If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Autism, Parent

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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, Fever

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• I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Children, Sunday

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• Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Children, People, Way

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west”

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• Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.

  Mandy Moore

  Children, Pneumonia, Years

  "Remembering the Forgotten Killer" by Mandy Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts -- you know, they, they kill children. It's a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important.

  Bill Gates

  Mother, Children, Lying

  "Bill Gates: Vaccine-autism link 'an absolute lie'". Interview with Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2011.

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