#pox

It's not about trying to change the world, it's about trying not to be changed by it. ↗

— Lights Poxlietner

#lights-bokan #lights-poxleitner #world #change

We are built with a passion in our heart for the things we are meant to do. ↗

— Lights Poxlietner

#inspirational #lights-bokan #lights-poxleitner #passion #inspirational

Gabriel’s green eyes sought Will. “It was demon pox, wasn’t it? You know all about it, don’t you? Aren’t you some sort of expert?” “Well, you needn’t act as if I invented it,” said Will. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#gabriel #will #acting

Demon pox, oh, demon pox, Just how is it acquired? One must go down to the bad part of town Until one is very tired. Demon pox, oh, demon pox I had it all along— No, not the pox, you foolish blocks, I mean this very song— For I was right, and you were wrong!” “Will!” Charlotte shouted over the noise. “Have you LOST YOUR MIND? CEASE THAT INFERNAL RACKET! ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#will #song

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox. ↗

— Woody Allen

#had #i #love #over #smallpox

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#another #diseases #estimated #europeans #far

Oh, leave it,” said Jem, kicking Will, not without affection, lightly on the ankle. “She’s annexed my plan!” “Will,” Tessa said firmly. “Do you care more about the plan being enacted or about getting credit for it?” Will pointed a finger at her. “That,” he said. “The second one. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#tessa #will #light

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#because #been #business #caused #folks

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#carter #center #disease #earth #elimination

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#americas #animal #camels #cattle #could