760 Quotes About Disease


  • Author Jared Diamond
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    Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases.

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  • Author Muriel Rukeyser
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    These are our strength, who strike against history.These whose corrupt cells owe their new styles of weakness to our diseases;these carrying light for safety on their foreheadsdescended deeper for richer faults of ore,drilling their death.These touching radium and the luminous poison,carried their death on their lips and with their warning glow in their graves.

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