#contagion

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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War is a contagion. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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

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Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion. ↗

— Tony Blair

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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

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