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• I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Ideas, People

  Albert Camus (1972). “The Plague”, eBookEden.com

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• Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

  Henry Fielding

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

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• A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Interesting, Revolution, Heal

  Lee Lockwood, Daniel Berrigan (1972). “Daniel Berrigan: Absurd Convictions, Modest Hopes: Conversations After Prison with Lee Lockwood”, New York : Random House

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• There is a great fear that plagues only romantics and children... it is that they might be alright alone.

  Merrit Malloy

  Children, Might, Alright

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• War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

  Martin Luther

  War, Humanity, States

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.332

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• My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.

  George Washington

  Peace, War, 4th Of July

  "Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious".

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• Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus, the village elders had instituted their own methods for controlling the virus, according to their received wisdom, which was to cut their villages off from the world, to protect their people from a raging plague. It was reverse quarantine, an ancient practice in Africa, where a village bars itself from strangers during a time of disease, and drives away outsiders who appear. (94)

  Richard Preston

  Cutting, Practice, People

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• Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.

  Smiley Blanton

  Worry, Anxiety, Definitions

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• And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plagueisdoneastoperiwigs, fornobody will daretobuy any haire for fear of the infectionthat it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.

  Samuel Pepys

  Fashion, Cutting, People

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• The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Powerful, Character, Reality

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea.

  Primo Levi

  Country, Roots, Air

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• We need a plague. It's gotta happen. And don't worry, it's only gonna kill the weak. Seriously. Put on a sweater, take some vitamins, you're gonna be fine! We gotta let mother nature do her
  thing, man. She keeps trying to help us out and we won't let her do it.

  Bill Burr

  Mother, Men, Sweaters

  "Bill Burr: Let It Go". Documentary, Comedy, 2010.

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• Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the truth-with a capital T. But every country priest who visits his parishioners and has heard a man gasping for breath on his deathbed thinks as I do. He'd try to relieve human suffering before trying to point out its goodness.

  Albert Camus

  Country, Men, Thinking

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

  Jennifer Stone

  Technology, Mind, Suffering

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• A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Zoos, Animal, Royal

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1982). “Dialogues”, p.62, Univ of California Press

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• Our forces shall spread like a great plague across the earth, every blue zone on the planet will feel our wrath!

  Kane

  Wrath, Blue, Earth

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• False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

  Michael Crichton

  Sociology, Modern

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• The plague of government is senile delinquency.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Government, Delinquency, Senile

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Loss, Sorrow, Despair

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• Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not necessarily make us repent. The essence of repentance is that we cannot be repentant until we confront our own self righteousness with God's righteousness.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  War, Adversity, Self

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• They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.

  Albert Camus

  Sometimes, Humans, Human Love

  Albert Camus (1972). “The Plague”, eBookEden.com

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• For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Air, Sea

  Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 1963, New York, NY

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• Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.

  Ann Patchett

  Mouths, Virtue, Horrible

  Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.43, A&C Black

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• The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Boast

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 12, 1595.

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• A plague on both your houses.

  William Shakespeare

  House

  William Shakespeare (1993). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.137, Heinemann

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