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  • Benjamin Franklin refused to have one of his children vaccinated against smallpox. The four-year-old boy died, and Franklin wrote later of how mistaken he was to expose him to the needless risk.

    Children   Boys   Years  
    Source: www.newyorker.com
  • Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus, the village elders had instituted their own methods for controlling the virus, according to their received wisdom, which was to cut their villages off from the world, to protect their people from a raging plague. It was reverse quarantine, an ancient practice in Africa, where a village bars itself from strangers during a time of disease, and drives away outsiders who appear. (94)

  • Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

    Death   Cancer   Honor  
    John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.217, Penguin
  • In 1967, the world health community launched a global effort to eradicate smallpox. It took a coordinated, worldwide effort, required the commitment of every government, and cost $130 million dollars. By 1977, smallpox had disappeared.

  • One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.

    Country   Men   Practice  
  • My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

    Past   Viruses   Half  
    William S. Burroughs (2013). “The Adding Machine”, p.59, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by which epidemic diseases contributed to the destruction of classical civilization. Christianity owes a formidable debt to bubonic plague and to smallpox, no less than to earthquake and volcanic eruptions.

    Hans Zinsser (2011). “Rats, Lice and History”, p.139, Transaction Publishers
  • In this article we begin to address the subject of vaccinosis, the general name for chronic dis-ease caused by vaccines. For some readers the very idea that vaccines are anything but wonderful and life-saving may come as a surprise, and it's not a very pleasant one. After all, the general population pictures vaccines as one of modern medicine's best and brightest moments, saving literally millions from the scourge of diseases like poliomyelitis and smallpox.

    Names   Ideas   Vaccines  
  • The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. [...] Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.

    Gay   White   Sick  
    "A Lost Civilization". www.nytimes.com. December 8, 2012.
  • Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Today we are concerned with a different kind of hazard that lurks in our environment-a hazard we ourselves have introduced into our world as our modern way of life has evolved.

    Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.

  • While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.

  • I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

    "A Q&A with Bill Gates". Interview with Kristi Heim, www.seattletimes.com. September 25, 2007.
  • Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.

  • The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.

    Real   Hero   Vaccines  
    John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.177, Penguin
  • Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

    Birthday   Age   Today  
  • I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

    "Annie Hall". Comedy, Romance, 1977.
  • Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

    Worry   Disease   Bios  
    "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.
  • We have completely eradicated smallpox; we have almost eradicated polio. That's the miracle of vaccines, which is even greater than that of antibiotics.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Smallpox in a blanket, which the U.S. Army gave to the Cherokee Indians on their long march to the West, was nothing compared to what I'd like to see done to these people

    Army   Long   People  
  • We have two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - again it's the instability that is a problem there. So over the next several years, we expect to drive the number of [polio] cases back down to zero because that is likely to be the second disease after smallpox that we completely eradicate.

    Country   Zero   Years  
    Source: www.ctvnews.ca
  • It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.

    Hurt   People   Wish  
  • If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude get stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

    Jesus   Cancer   Kids  
  • Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.

    Self   Meals   Blanket  
    Colson Whitehead (2014). “The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death”, p.69, Anchor
  • Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

    Business   Mind   Atheism  
    William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.16, Arcade Publishing
  • I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.

    Practice   World   Spread  
  • Smallpox is natural; vaccine ain't.

  • I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of a virus... Religion is a terrific meme. That's right. But that doesn't make it true and I care about what's true. Smallpox virus is a terrific virus. It does its job magnificently well. That doesn't mean that it's a good thing. It doesn't mean that I don't want to see it stamped out.

    Jobs   Mean   Thinking  
  • If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without killing her, causes his love to cease. And if any one loves me for my judgment or my memory, does he really love me? No; for I can lose these qualities without ceasing to be.

    Love   Memories   Men  
    Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.127
  • If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.

    Love   Looks   Dimples  
    Stephen King (2011). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.580, Simon and Schuster
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