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“Today, we share no fewer than 300 diseases with domesticated animals. For example, humans get 45 diseases from cattle, including tuberculosis; 46 from sheep and goats; 42 from pigs; 35 from horses, including the common cold; and 26 from poultry. Rats and mice carry 33 diseases to humans, including bubonic plague. Sixty-five diseases, including measles, originated in man’s best friend, the dog. We can still get parasitic worms from pet dogs and cats. That is why it is not a good idea to kiss a pet on the mouth or sleep with it in bed.4”
― Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
― Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
“The world is full of miracles, but none greater than how far a young person can be carried by someone else’s belief in them.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“Edward Jenner’s discovery of vaccination drew harsh criticism from the pulpit. Clergymen denounced the doctor for having put himself above God. Only the Almighty, they said, sends illness and only the Almighty cures it. Vaccination, critics charged, was “a diabolical operation,” and its inventor was “flying in the face of Providence”
― Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
― Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
“There are a lot of good things about dying. You are suddenly light and free and no longer afraid of death, sickness, judgement or religion; you don't have to grow up fated to replicate the lives of others.
But for the most important advantage of death is knowing something when I want to know it. Kon fayakon. Piece of cake. If I want to be somewhere, I am, just like that.”
― The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
But for the most important advantage of death is knowing something when I want to know it. Kon fayakon. Piece of cake. If I want to be somewhere, I am, just like that.”
― The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
“be a person with knowledge not just opinions”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
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