#epidemic

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

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 is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#because #down #epidemic #makes #middle

Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#been #behaviour #beyond #capitalism #created

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#epidemics #fashions #induced #only

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#aids #commit #defeat #discriminatory #economic

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#fashion #induced #nothing

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#case #certain #epidemic #infection #thought

My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918. ↗

— James Rainwater

#civil #died #engineer #epidemic #father