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“No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. —Mahatma Gandhi”
― The Intelligent Conversationalist: 31 Cheat Sheets That Will Show You How to Talk to Anyone About Anything, Anytime
― The Intelligent Conversationalist: 31 Cheat Sheets That Will Show You How to Talk to Anyone About Anything, Anytime
“Such pervasive and violent opposition to the city’s public health program prevented the plan from being implemented as every municipal initiative provoked a violent backlash and drove Naples to a state of near anarchy. The Times of London commented that the port was afflicted with something worse than cholera—“medieval ignorance and superstition.”
― Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present
― Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present
“Echoing Fleming’s warning, theorists of emerging diseases argue that antibiotics are a “nonrenewable resource” whose duration of efficacy is biologically limited.”
― Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present
― Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present
“The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.”
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“In case you’re inclined to dismiss such obstacles as a vanished feature of the remote past, in the state of Florida in the year 2000 about 100,000 potential voters, the vast majority of them Democrats, were pruned off the list of registered voters. That pruning had an enormous effect on tipping the Florida 2000 presidential vote, hence the U.S. presidency,”
― Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
― Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
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