Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935
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Quotes
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951It would seem that in history it’s never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.
—Sybille Bedford, 1963Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1973In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
—Simon Hoggart, 1990The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.
—Italian proverbWhoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636Everyone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.