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We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.

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The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the real enemy is War rather than imperial Germany. There is work to be done to prevent this war of ours from passing into popular mythology as a holy crusade. What shall we do with leaders who tell us that we go to war in moral spotlessness or who make “democracy” synonymous with a republican form of government? Randolph Bourne
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Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent. Hunter S. Thompson
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited."
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It is ful fair a man to bere him evene,/For alday meeteth men at unset stevene. Geoffrey Chaucer
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One must desire something to be alive Margaret Deland
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I did get a degree in special education. Clay Aiken
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It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. Marilu Henner
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I don't have a lot of friends. Janet Jackson
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I support population control. I think USA should do the same. Alex Chiu
The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be. Frank Herbert
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Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner. Ma Jian