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• Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, Greed, Humanity

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

  Voltaire

  Art, Blessing, Cities

  "Candide, Or, Optimism". Book by Voltaire, 1759.

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• Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.

  Thomas Malthus

  People, House, Crowds

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1989). “An Essay on the Principle of Population”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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

  Giovanni Trapattoni

  Soccer, Football, Outbreaks

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• European standards of beauty are something that plague the entire world - the idea that darker skin is not beautiful, that light skin is the key to success and love. Africa is no exception.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Beautiful, Keys, Light

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I tell priests to flee from clericalism because clericalism distances people. May they flee from clericalism and I add: it's a plague in the Church.

  Pope Francis

  Distance, People, Church

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Running, Home

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• I think the number of books published by Mr. Disney has nothing to do with whether or not he is bringing literature to children. That judgment has got to be based on quality rather than quantity. It's the same old problem that continually plagues American culture. I would rather have children playing their own games out of doors in the sunlight than getting the misrepresentation of literature as given by Walt Disney.

  Frances Clarke Sayers

  Children, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating as the bubonic plague, and it has destroyed millions of effective lives and relationships. We are so self-centered that we have ceased to lay down our lives for others. We have seen others faint or walk away and we have followed in their weakness. We have fainted when we could have persevered by exchanging our strength for His! With His strength, not only could we have kept on walking, we could have run!

  Kay Arthur

  Running, Epidemics, Self

  Kay Arthur (2004). “God, How Can I Live?”, p.111, Harvest House Publishers

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• As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

  Larry Niven

  Two, Childhood, Disease

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• If you have older children who avoid you like the plague, buy yourself some expensive bath salts, run a hot tub, and settle in for a long soak. Teenagers who haven't talked to you since their tenth birthday will bang on the door, demanding your immediate attention.

  Teresa Bloomingdale

  Running, Children, Teenager

  Teresa Bloomingdale (1982). “Murphy must have been a mother!: (and other laws I live by)”, Doubleday Books

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• We live in the real world - we live within a certain history of the plague that has landed on us.

  Wole Soyinka

  Real, World, Real World

  Source: whatsonafrica.org

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• What hurts is not being homosexual, but they tell it in your face as if you were a plague.

  Chavela Vargas

  Hurt, Faces, Your Face

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• I've never had high expectations of my work and I certainly am not going to let that plague my thoughts. I'm just going to continue to choose what feels right for me at the time and go with it.

  Heath Ledger

  Expectations, My Thoughts, Feels Right

  "Heath Ledger on 'Candy'". Interview With Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. November 29, 2006.

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• The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.

  Simone Weil

  Doctors, Saint, Needs

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.29, Routledge

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• Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

  Plutarch

  Curiosity, Wish, May

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

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• I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude; life tends to knock a few corners of us as we go through. Cancer, divorce, teenagers, and other plagues make us give up on expecting ourselves - or life - to be perfect, which is a real relief.

  Molly Ivins

  Giving Up, Real, Cancer

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• We have to tackle the plague of gun violence.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Violence, Gun Violence

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• We cannot count on God to arrange what happens in our lives in ways that will make us feel good.We can, however, count on God to patiently remove all the obstacles to our enjoyment of Him. He is committed to our joy, and we can depend on Him to give us enough of a taste of that joy and enough hope that the best is still ahead to keep us going in spite of how much pain continues to plague our hearts.

  Larry Crabb

  Pain, Heart, Giving

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• The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but when the grave closed over his victims he was essentially finished with them unless he remembered to curse their succeeding progeny. Not until the advent of the Prince of Peace do we hear of the ghastly idea of further punishing and torturing the dead.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Ideas, Suffering, Prince Of Peace

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything”, p.140, Hachette UK

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• When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this.

  Howard Zinn

  Law, People, Leader

  Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove (2011). “Voices of a People's History of the United States”, p.484, Seven Stories Press

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• Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring it on or aggravate it until there's almost no coping with it. That's why you find sleeping pills in so many medicine cabinets next to the laxatives.

  Jack LaLanne

  Stress, Sleep, Insomnia

  Jack Lalanne (1995). “Revitalize Your Life After Fifty”, Hastings House Pub

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• Vegetarians, dropping meat, tend to fill up with too much starch. This leaves them no more healthy than meat-eaters, with constipation, indigestion, colds, catarrhs, coughs and chest complaints to plague them. Eating sparingly of breads, cakes, crackers, cookies, macaroni, spaghetti, anything largely starch, is a far step on the road to good health.

  Helen and Scott Nearing

  Vegetarianism, Cake, Healthy

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• These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's reserves of perishable oil, which culminated in the False Tribulation, and the wars, and the plagues, and the painful dwindling of inflated populations to more reasonable numbers.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  War, Oil, Numbers

  Robert Charles Wilson (2009). “Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America”, p.30, Macmillan

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• We have to tackle the plague of gun violence, which is a big contributor to a lot of the problems that we're seeing today.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Today, Violence

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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