#contagion

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust. ↗

— Marianne Moore

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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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Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

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The Shrink always warned me that carriers stay wracked with lifelong guilt. It's not an uplifting thing having turned lovers into monsters. We feel bad that we haven't turned into monsters ourselves--survivor's guilt, that's called. And we feel a bit stupid that we didn't notice our own symptoms earlier. I mean, I'd been sort of wondering why the Atkins diet was giving me night vision. But that hadn't seemed like something to worry about... ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#funny #guilt #humor #ombies #parasites