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• But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!

  George Canning

  Wrath, Heaven, Candid

  'New Morality' (1821) l. 207

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• Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Fighting, Humanity, Poverty

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• Gossiping is the plague of little towns.

  George Sand

  Littles, Towns, Little Towns

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.121, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.

  Mark Twain

  God, Fashion, Leaving

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.95, Xist Publishing

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• Idleness is the great plague of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Idleness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more than one great country. Blight to destroy crops, Anthrax to slay horses and cattle, Plague to poison not armies but whole districts - such are the lines along which military science is remorselessly advancing.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Horse, Military

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.220, Da Capo Press

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• I have a terrible time during elections. I am way too politically involved. I absolutely never argue politics with anyone, as it makes me crazy and full of judgment and hostility. I have two very conservative friends, whom I cherish and would entrust my life to; we avoid politics like the plague. So in a certain way, it limits how completely we let ourselves know each other, but this is just the way it is and it is the best we can do. And I am secretly convinced that God is a progressive Democrat.

  Anne Lamott

  Crazy, Two, Way

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• Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  World, Worst, Ill

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• Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of producing almost anything, the time is ripe for opening the storehouse of infinite need!... It is the modern Pandora's box, and its plagues are loose upon the world.

  Jules Henry

  Giving, Needs, Culture

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• The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Crime, Criminality, Termination

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• What can you do? [Bernie] Sanders, as a Jewish man: What could Pharaoh do to extend his time, and stop the plagues from coming on Egypt? This is the modern "Egypt", Mr. Sanders. Let the Black man go and give us justice, and these things that are whipping you today will start diminishing, and you will get a longer period of time.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Men, Egypt, Giving

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our lives are; perhaps that is why we love it so. City of plagues and brief liaisons, city of lingering deaths and incendiary loves, city of chimeras, nightmares, pigeons, bells. You are the only city in the world whose dialect has a word for the shimmer of canal water reflected on the ceiling of a room.

  Erica Jong

  Journey, Sea, Cities

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• In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.

  David Brin

  Selfish, Real, Book

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• where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there’s only death

  Ted Hughes

  Running, Hate, Holes

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• I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.

  Charles Lamb

  Business, Character, Men

  Charles Lamb (1884). “Little essays, sketches and characters, by C. Lamb, selected from his letters by P. Fitzgerald”

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• The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

  Plato

  Law, Evil, Would Be

  Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.269

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• Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness.

  Peter Paul Rubens

  Children, Soul, Rubbish

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• The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits. I've swallowed three hooks and am still hungry. Hence the howls. What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but strech out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for eternity.

  Samuel Beckett

  Long, Water, Joy

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• The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the ghettos, like animals. They want to live in an open, free society where they can walk with their heads up, like men, and women! Few white people realize that many black people today dislike and avoid spending more time than they must about white people. This 'integration' image, as it is popularly interpreted, has millions of vain, self-exalted white people convinced that black people want to sleep in bed with them - and that's a lie!

  Malcolm X

  Lying, Sleep, Ghetto

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• There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not?

  Tenzin Palmo

  Religious, War, Government

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• Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.

  Alexander Pope

  Brother, Made

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.375

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• Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Long, People, Generosity

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.629, Simon and Schuster

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• Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?

  Bernard Beckett

  Indifference

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• Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Life, Two, Four

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2010). “The Windup Girl”, p.214, Hachette UK

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• I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Emotional, People, Serious

  "Robert Anton Wilson on Wilhelm Reich". Interview, March 1995.

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