Epidemics quotes
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"When crime drops dramatically in New York for no apparent reason, or when a movie made on a shoestring budget ends up making hundreds of millions of dollars - we're surprised. I'm saying, don't be surprised. This is the way social epidemics work."
"On the The AIDS Epidemic: This is a war. It has killed more people than has been the case in all previous wars and in all previous natural disasters ... We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing, when people are dying."
"Fashions are induced epidemics."
"When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art."
"Epidemics of "bad" voice can kill your reputation overnight."
"Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life."
"That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues."
