Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Leader, Politician
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."
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Vaccines
178 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"There is no vaccine against stupidity."
Andrew Carnegie
Industrialist, Philanthropist
"Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket."
Jim Carrey
Actor, Comedian
"150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine."
Rand Paul
Politician
"I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines."
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"The vaccinations are not working, and they are dangerous.. We should be working with nature."
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"Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio."
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"I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever."
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"You can't save kids just with vaccines."
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"If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism."
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"You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work."
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"Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall."
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"The world today has 6.8 billion people...that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 to 15 percent."
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"The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the US vaccine schedule."
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"We have completely eradicated smallpox; we have almost eradicated polio. That's the miracle of vaccines, which is even greater than that of antibiotics."
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"Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags... Those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects you. Enlightenment. Put your faith in something with tangible results. How long has it been since someone walked on water? Modern miracles belong to science. Computers, vaccines, space stations... Even the divine miracle of creation. Matter from nothing... In a lab. Who needs God? No! Science is God!"
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"We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them."
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"Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience."
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"Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance."
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"As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination."
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"The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it."
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"I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe."
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"There's no 'dumb-ass' vaccine."
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"I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of places in India, etc. When I would go and talk to villagers about something like vaccines, if I stayed long enough, the women would bring the conversation around and say: "What about this family planning tool? We can't keep having the number of children we're having.""
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"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."
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