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If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.

—George W. Bush, 2005

I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830

The sick man is the parasite of society.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889

All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.

—Jack London, 1912

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

—Muhammad, c. 630

Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

—Helen Keller, 1936

Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

—Hans Zinsser, 1935

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

—Maria Edgeworth, 1833

Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.

—Guy R. Williams, 1975

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

—Richard Krause, 1982

What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?

—Ovid, c. 10

Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1600

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

—Thomas Mann, 1924