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«The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities (smallpox) was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie»
Author: Edward Jenner
(Surgeon)
| About:
Joy
| Keywords:
calamities, destined, excessive, prospect, reverie, reveries, smallpox
«I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox»
Author: Edward Jenner
(Surgeon)
| About:
Practice
| Keywords:
cowpox, producing, smallpox, spread over, The Practice
«It's a place people would go to even if the cook had just died of smallpox in the kitchen.»
Author: Richard West
| Keywords:
smallpox
«Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
caused, folks, of their own, smallpox, smallpox virus, virus, viruses
«I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
all over, either, nauseous, smallpox
«Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox»
«When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any sympathy for them or because we crave their blessings, but simply because we don't want them to be falling ill of smallpox»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
appropriate, crave, funds, horde, hordes, Negroes, public funds, smallpox, vaccinated, vaccinating
«My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
as such, firmly, gangster, gangsters, host, institute, instituted, Pasteur, relatively, smallpox, smallpox virus, sneer, sneering, stable, symbiosis, that is to say, The Other Half, viruses
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