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Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague. -- Hendrik Poinar
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. -- Thucydides
The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure. -- Fritz Kreisler
The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. -- Buffalo Bill
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work. -- Karl Abraham
The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion. -- Lytton Strachey
When Peru had a cholera outbreak in 1991, losses from tourism and agricultural revenue were three times greater than the total money spent on sanitation in the previous decade. -- Rose George
Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes. -- Aaron Klein
Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event. -- Alan Huffman
I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and always wanted to set a world-ender on Hispaniola. -- Junot Diaz
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There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy. -- Edward Everett
I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise. -- John Schlesinger
In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body. -- Eli Roth
We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been. -- Michael Burgess
After the outbreak of war, in April 1940, we left Geneva with our three children aged 4 years, 2 years and 2 weeks only to become part of the disordered refugee crowds fleeing across France from the German army. -- James Meade
It's a relief to hear the rain. It's the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like a sudden outbreak of democracy. Water, when it hits the ground, instantly becomes a puddle or rivulet or flood. -- Alice Oswald
Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere. -- Michael Burgess
Aeroplanes interested me, and at the outbreak of the Second World War, I joined the RAF as a volunteer reservist. I took the opportunity of studying the books which the RAF made available for radio mechanics and looked forward to an interesting course in radio. -- Godfrey Hounsfield
I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France. -- Edward Grey
The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis. -- Brendan I. Koerner
There are two 'Snow White' movies coming out for the same reason that you remember back in the day there was 'Armageddon' and then 'Deep Impact.' You know, 'Andromeda Strain' and then 'Outbreak.' Like, all of those things. It's common because basically studios have no imagination in making the decisions. -- Armie Hammer
We domesticated pigs to turn food waste back into food. And yet, in Europe, that practice has become illegal since 2001 as a result of the foot-and-mouth outbreak. It's unscientific. It's unnecessary. If you cook food for pigs, just as if you cook food for humans, it is rendered safe. It's also a massive saving of resources. -- Tristram Stuart
Only if there's an outbreak of the bubonic plague. -- Giovanni Trapattoni
Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism. -- Oswald Spengler
We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak. -- Anthony S. Fauci
This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it. -- David Nabarro
The level of outbreak is beyond anything we've seen-or even imagined. -- Tom Frieden
Health system development is a key to effective detection, response, and control of any outbreak. -- Margaret Chan
The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false. -- Jeb Bush
I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS- you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. -- Margaret Cho
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We like to imagine that Shaun is in George Romero's universe, that it's happening at the same time as the Pittsburgh outbreak. -- Edgar Wright
The first rule of Zombieland: Cardio. When the zombie outbreak first hit, the first to go, for obvious reasons ... were the fatties. -- Jesse Eisenberg
The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens. -- Roger Ebert
An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single. -- Charlotte Bingham
Indeed, one concern would be that the initial neoconservative response to a zombie outbreak would be to invade Iraq again out of force of habit. -- Daniel W. Drezner
The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy -- Henry Ford
To me there is nothing more fraught with mystery & terror than a remote Massachusetts farmhouse against a lonely hill. Where else could an outbreak like the Salem witchcraft have occurred? -- H. P. Lovecraft
A severe disease that transmits easily will leave very little international surge capacity as most countries will need their own staff and resources to combat the outbreak in their territories. -- Margaret Chan
"Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows across - permeates - the boundaries of the self. -- Laura Mullen
It is possible to conceive conflict as not necessarily a wasteful outbreak of incompatibilities, but a normal process by which socially valuable differences register themselves for the enrichment of all concerned. -- Mary Parker Follett
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We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been. -- Michael Burgess

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