#epidemic

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#century #conflicts #depression #disgraced #dozen

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#diseases #epidemic #europeans #evolved #give

However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry. ↗

— Bob Filner

#alone #children #control #dealing #educator

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#epic #epidemic #life #men #my life

Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders. ↗

— Tim Holden

#american #association #centers #control #diabetes

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#bypass #diabetes #economics #epidemic #gastric

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America. ↗

— Morgan Spurlock

#america #epidemic #hearing #i #magazine

There's a huge AIDS epidemic in Africa, and one of Bad Boy's plans this year is to give more awareness to that. We're gonna be doing a big charity concert helping to save some of the brothers and sisters in Africa. ↗

— Puff Daddy

#aids #awareness #bad #big #boy

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#been #began #behind #classical #dad

We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#commitment #communities #enforcement #epidemic #federal