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«A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.»
«No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
corruption, immune, infection, infections, power politics
«A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.»
Author: Jane Smiley
| Keywords:
belief system, controversial, germ, immune, immune system, infection, infections, overwhelm, protected, the system, vulnerable
«Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.»
Author: Mary McCarthy
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anti-Semitism, anti, dallies, dally, draw near, enlightened, horrible, immune, infection, infections, scientific spirit, Semitism, sniff, sniffed, sniffing, sniffs, supposedly, The Vapors, vapor, vapors
«Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| About:
Thought
| Keywords:
epidemic, epidemics, infection, infections
«REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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accessible, dissuasion, evasion, evasions, hospitable, infections, persuasion
«INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime. The properties of ink are peculiar and contradictory: it may be used to make reputations and unmake them; to blacken them and to make them white; but it is most generally and acceptably employed as a mortar to bind together the stones of an edifice of fame, and as a whitewash to conceal afterward the rascal quality of the material. There are men called journalists who have established ink baths which some persons pay money to get into, others to get out of. Not infrequently it occurs that a person who has paid to get in pays twice as much to get out.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acceptably, afterward, Arabic, baths, bath water, bind, blacken, blackened, blackens, calling together, chiefly, compound, contradictory, edifice, edifices, employed, facilitate, facilitated, gum, gum arabic, idiocy, infection, infections, infrequently, Intellectual property, Journalists, mortar, occurs, promote, properties, rascal, Reputations, The Rascals, unmade, unmake, villainous, whitewash, whitewashing
«Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish: Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
anguish, backward, burned-out, Burns, burnt-out, cures, desperate, giddy, infection, infections, languish, languished, languishes, languishing, lessen, rank
«This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, Th»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
breed, Eden, fortress, infection, infections, isle, Isle of Man, majesty, Mars, royal, scepter, scepters, throne
«All the infections that the sun sucks upFrom bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make himBy inch-meal a disease!»
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