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• A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Sadness, Blow

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [370]

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• You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Thinking, Lust

  'The Spur'

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• Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only".

  Plutarch

  Wife, Said, Very Happy

  "On the Tranquillity of the Mind". Book by Plutarch. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe, and must be called drinking, being so thirsty and hell-like that no guzzling of wine and beer, however large, will cool it off, and I fear that such will ever remain Germany's plague, until the day of judgment.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Drinking, Wine

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• In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance policy against catastrophe at home. During the next millennium there is a significant chance that civilization on Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid, a killer plague or a global war. A Martian colony could keep the flame of civilization and culture alive until Earth could be reverse-colonized from Mars.

  Paul Davies

  War, Home, Moon

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• He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Fall, Liberty, May

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.241, Lulu Press, Inc

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• They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Ocean, People, Earth

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• Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

  Charlton Heston

  Land, Political, Correctness

  Charlton Heston (2000). “To Be a Man: Letters to My Grandson”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Europe, Economic, Currency

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• It’s not the plant-based foods that will make you ill, it’s the meat and the liquid meat (i.e.: dairy) that can lead to sickness and death. Consider this: If your food had a face or a mother (or comes from something that did), then it also has varying amounts of artery-clogging, plaque-plugging, and cholesterol-hiking animal protein, animal cholesterol, and animal fat. These substances are the building blocks of the chronic diseases that plague Western society.

  Rip Esselstyn

  Mother, Block, Animal

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• The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. [...] Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.

  Maureen Dowd

  Gay, White, Sick

  "A Lost Civilization". www.nytimes.com. December 8, 2012.

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• Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Science, Evil

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.208, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Early humans, bursting with questions about Nature but with limited understanding of its dynamics, explained things in terms of supernatural persons and person-animals who delivered the droughts and floods and plagues. . . .

  Ursula Goodenough

  Animal, Understanding, Religion

  Ursula Goodenough (2000). “The Sacred Depths of Nature”, p.12, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the illness of those who do not know where they fit, who lose faith in the myths they have so painstakingly created for themselves. It is a plague - especially if you add in its various forms of expression, like alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, drug addiction, compulsive behavior of one kind or another. They're all the same things: attempts to avoid disappearance, or nothingness, or chaos.

  Tim Lott

  Depression, Character, Unique

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• Walk by faith! Stop the plague of worry. Relax! Learn to say, "Lord, this is Your battle."

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Worry, Battle

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• A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Religious, Humor

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• The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

  Shelley Berman

  Problems Love, Etc, Love Of Money

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• It is a racking thing to have a plague of ideas and no chance to get rid of them on paper. I've nearly gone mad at times.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Ideas, Mad, Gone

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• I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.

  Kristen Stewart

  Crazy, Luck, Thumbs

  "Comic-con: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner And Stephenie Meyer Talk The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Pt. 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2012.

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• The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We realize how suffocatingly humane we've become, dedicated to moderation and the middle way. The suburbanization of the soul has overrun our planet like the plague.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, Community, Forever

  J. G. Ballard (2010). “Super-Cannes: A Novel”, p.269, Macmillan

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• We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Gun, Needs, Violent

  "The Lenny Interview: Marian Wright Edelman". Interview with Jurnee Smollett-bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

  Daniel Defoe

  Doubt, Atheism, Tyranny

  'The True-Born Englishman' (1701) pt. 2, l. 299

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• Words were her plague and words were her redemption.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Redemption

  Hilda Doolittle (1981). “HERmione”, p.67, New Directions Publishing

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• Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague; where we are now in debt, let us get out of debt; if not today...tomorrow.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Debt, Today, Tomorrow

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• I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to think about what happens when the containment of a presumed danger through the regimentation of space breaks down, such as when South-Central L.A. began to invade Beverly Hills.

  Naomi Wallace

  Reading, Thinking, Space

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