#spread

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

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#counterfeit #even #fall #false #flowers

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#breadth #collective #his #land #length

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

My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it. ↗

— Johnny Isakson

#defensive #democracy #fighting #fortunes #more

My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#hundred #likely #limited #more #much

The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#aggravate #also #between #cases #create

We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small. ↗

— Ann Veneman

#assessments #cases #country #did #even