Strict quarantine and social distancing strategies will be critical to mitigating the spread of this disease.”
Published just over six years before the COVID-19 pandemic, this quote from the book stood out. It is incredible to me how such an easy-to-accept concept prior to our current crisis became so controversial and fodder for imagined conspiracies after an actual pandemic took hold.
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“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
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“Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.”
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“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
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