#spread

The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War. ↗

— Jim Bunning

#bit #cold #cold war #communism #during

The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way. ↗

— Jack Cade

#any #color #court #days #dread

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#attention span #culture #destroying #mission #press

Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world. ↗

— Margaret Chan

#capacity #country #every #influenza #must

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#baby #boom #discovered #fear #generation

Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#arrived #bother #busy #down #flourished

Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area? ↗

— Asa Gray

#any #area #assume #continuous #evidence

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating. ↗

— Gilbert Highet

#big #branches #bud #changing #drop

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#listening #magic #more #music #play

You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#democracy #gun #spread #through #you