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Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization. -- Lawrence Summers
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust. -- Marianne Moore
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. -- William Shakespeare
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. -- Thornton Wilder
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. -- Thomas Paine
The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion. -- Alan Greenspan
But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order. -- Tony Blair
Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed. -- Adam Clarke
If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion. -- Peer Steinbruck
I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping around. Or all of them are grumpy. Or all of them are sleepy and settle down. In such cases, the mood contagion serves the function of synchronizing activities. -- Frans de Waal
Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart. -- Alan Greenspan
Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more importantly about the frailty of governance, nationally and worldwide. -- Laurie Garrett
Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear. -- Dan Brown
If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use. -- John Woolman
Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread -- Jules Henry
I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear. -- Michel de Montaigne
As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time. -- E. B. White
All the contagion of the south light on you, You shames of Rome! you herd of--boils and plagues Plaster you o'er; that you may be abhorr'd Further than seen, and one infect another Against the wind a mile! -- William Shakespeare
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion. -- Victor Hugo
The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going to change the way we live and it just faded away. Wait a minute, I'm talking about President Obama. -- Craig Ferguson
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness. -- Charles Dickens
The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion. -- Henry David Thoreau
It feels like a rash. It suddenly seems like I've got a contagion of diseases, I mean awards. But it's nice, it's a nice feeling. It's so weird, because I'm only 46. A lifetime Achievement award... it feels like 'I'm not over yet'. I hope they're not trying to say it's time to stop. I'm only just getting the gist of it. -- Helena Bonham Carter
War is a contagion. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our community of contagion really is a world community. -- Eula Biss
Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion. -- Tony Blair
Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny. -- Nancy Gibbs
The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because I soon guessed how it spread. -- Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread. -- Charles Jules Henry Nicole
If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of others. If others are fearful, there may be good reason for you to be fearful too. -- Frans de Waal
He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure. -- Harry Crews
For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily. -- Yanis Varoufakis
I remember my wife wanted me to go see 'Contagion,' and I was like, 'Oh my God, why would I want to see that movie?' I mean, I'll just have nightmares and it will freak me out. It turned out that I really enjoyed it; I thought it was very well done. -- Steve Carell
Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken. -- Douglas Rushkoff
In a way, being born is a sort of ecological contagion. When you have longevity of family, we remember our grandfathers and maybe our great-grandfathers. We somehow don't have the capacity in modern life to remember further than that. All of the ramifications of their lives have an effect on us, and we're not aware of it. -- Lance Henriksen
Where does contagion end and art begin? -- Neil Gaiman
Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends. -- John Dryden
Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character. -- John Adams
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Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagion: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop. -- Robert Holden
The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist. -- Alexander Hamilton
It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction. -- Daniel Goleman
The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion. -- Matthew Arnold
Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy. -- Anais Nin
Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory within music culture. -- Kode9
If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion. -- Aldous Huxley
Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
If evil is contagious, so is good:therefore, we must allow good to abound in us, more and more;let us be infected by goodness, and let us spread the good contagion. -- Pope Francis
When first the college rolls receive his name, The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame; Through all his veins the fever of renown Burns from the strong contagion of the gown -- Samuel Johnson
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
There's something known as "memory conformity," also known as "social contagion of memory," which refers to a situation where one person's telling of a memory influences another person's account of that same experience. -- Rob Roberge

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