Outbreaks Quotes - Page 3

• With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught us many lessons and impelled our Navy, for the first time since the outbreak of war, to indulge in critical self-examination.

  Mitsuo Fuchida

  War, Self, Taught Us

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• I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.

  Margaret Cho

  Racism, Toronto, Asian

  "Margaret Cho: CHO Revolution". Video, June 12, 2004.

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• When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body.

  Eli Roth

  Body, Legs, Bleeding

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• There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.

  Edward Everett

  Real, Speech, Lasts

  Edward Everett (1868). “Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions”, p.653

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• If there is a serious outbreak in the UK I doubt voters will risk a Labour government. Time to get serious... Look at Diane Abbott's irresponsible comments on Ebola patients, Mili's open border policy. No. Way.

  Louise Mensch

  Stupid, Government, Ebola

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• No travel ban or quarantine will seal a country completely. Even if travel could be reduced by eighty per cent-itself a feat-models predict that new transmissions would be delayed only a few weeks. Worse, it would only drive an increase in the number of cases at the source. Health-care workers who have fallen ill would not be able to get out for treatment, and the international health personnel needed to quell the outbreak would no longer be able to go in.

  Atul Gawande

  Country, Numbers, Ebola

  "The Ebola Epidemic Is Stoppable" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2014.

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• I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.

  John Schlesinger

  Looks, Festivals, Berlin

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• Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.

  Aaron Klein

  Ebola, Long, Republican

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• Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken factories forced the closure of two major tributaries of the Chesapeake and threatened Maryland's vital shellfish industry. Tyson Foods has polluted half of all streams in northwestern Arkansas with so much fecal bacteria that swimming is prohibited. Drugs and hormones needed to keep confined animals alive and growing are mainly excreted with the wastes and saturate local waterways.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Swimming, Animal, Agriculture

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• Despite the debunking, you have a small group in the last five years that hasn't wanted to vaccinate their children, for instance, for measles. Then, all of sudden, we got an outbreak of measles and kids were starting to die from measles.

  Melinda Gates

  Children, Kids, Years

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• Some of the old diseases that we think are gone - case in point, measles - are back, now that somebody has spread around, in a very wicked way, the idea that these inoculations were making children autistic. Now we're getting outbreaks that are killing children. The end result is, if you create a population that lacks immunity, and diseases are still there, you're going to get outbreaks and you're going to get death.

  Margaret Atwood

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.

  Jeb Bush

  Freedom, Thinking, Cuba

  "Jeb Bush says warming ties with Cuba was 'the wrong thing to do", www.foxnews.com. February 18, 2015.

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• We need healthy forests if we want to protect our climate. As the climate changes, forests become more vulnerable to insect outbreaks, droughts and wildfires. Simultaneously, when our forests are destroyed, their carbon is released back into the atmosphere, further impacting climate change. It's a horrifying one-two punch.

  Chris Noth

  Two, Healthy, Atmosphere

  "My Plans This Valentine’s Day Weekend" by Chris Noth, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities, regardless of the element of surprise, destruction will be both reciprocal and complete, possibly we will have sense enough to meet at the conference table with the understanding that the era of armaments has ended and the human race must conform its actions to this truth or die.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Race, Understanding

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• To me there is nothing more fraught with mystery & terror than a remote Massachusetts farmhouse against a lonely hill. Where else could an outbreak like the Salem witchcraft have occurred?

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Lonely, Massachusetts, Mystery

  Letter to Elizabeth Toldridge (9 October 1931), in "Selected Letters III, 1929-1931" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 423), 1971.

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• On many occasions in the late 1950s and 1960s, [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas were apparently ignored by those who felt that his approach was too naive and prone to compromise. The outbreak of open warfare with the French and later with the United States was in effect a sign of the failure of Ho Chi Minh to achieve his objective to fight and win at low cost.

  William J. Duiker

  Fighting, Winning, Ideas

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Play, Defense

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• Only if there's an outbreak of the bubonic plague.

  Giovanni Trapattoni

  Soccer, Football, Bubonic Plague

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• California officials want to contain a measles outbreak that originated in Disneyland last month. They are in luck because everyone who is exposed to it is still in line at Space Mountain.

  Conan O'Brien

  California, Space, Luck

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• The Bucket List is a movie about two old codgers who are nothing like people, both suffering from cancer that is nothing like cancer, and setting off on adventures that are nothing like possible. I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens.

  Roger Ebert

  Cancer, Adventure, Dvds

  Roger Ebert (2010). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2011”, p.161, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to communication industries hastened the consolidation of vernaculars, the rise of nationalism, revolution, and new outbreaks of savagery in the twentieth century.

  Harold Innis

  Religious, War, Communication

  Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.67, University of Toronto Press

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• The first rule of Zombieland: Cardio. When the zombie outbreak first hit, the first to go, for obvious reasons ... were the fatties.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Zombie, Firsts, Reason

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• Roger_Bacon" title="Roger Bacon">Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he would burn all the works of the Stagirite, since the study of them was not simply loss of time, but multiplication of ignorance. Yet in spite of this outbreak every page is studded with citations from Aristotle, of whom he everywhere speaks in the highest admiration.

  George Henry Lewes

  Ignorance, Loss, Feelings

  "Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science". Book by George Henry Lewes, 1864.

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