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

—George W. Bush, 2005

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

—Samuel Johnson, 1750

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

—Richard Krause, 1982

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

—Marianne Moore, 1935

If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.

—Anton Chekhov, 1904

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.

—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960

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

—Helen Keller, 1936

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

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

—Jack London, 1912

Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.

—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989

Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.

—David Riesman, 1937

Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.

—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

—Maria Edgeworth, 1833