I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.
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Usenet article <199709242015.NAA10312@wall.org> (1997)Larry Wall
Nothing is so catching as the plague; now, fanaticism, no matter of what nature, is only the plague of the human mind.
Giacomo (Jacques Casanova de Seingal) Casanova
One of the key topics, for me, is a study of the individual in relation to crowds and to power. A film essay on crowd psychology would avoid commentary (it has become the madness of secondary discourse in many documentaries) and rely wholly on sound and image. Ideally, it would try to provide us with new concepts on the nature of society, on violence, and on the political bestiality of our times that is linked to the way the media has become a plague of words and images stripped of substance. It is a plague infecting our lives and, as a consequence, the history of nations with all that is sensational, random, and confused.
Damian Pettigrew
Avoid this crowd like the plague. And if they quote you, make damn sure they heard you.
Barbara Bush
I took opium but once — in the year of the plague, when doctors sought to deaden the agonies they could not cure. There was an overdose — my physician was worn out with horror and exertion — and I travelled very far indeed. In the end I returned and lived, but my nights are filled with strange memories, nor have I ever permitted a doctor to give me opium again.
H. P. Lovecraft
There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
Michel de Montaigne
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