I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. T...hat was something of which I had personal knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The peace loving nations must make a concerted effort in opposition to those violations of treaties and those ignorings of humane ...instincts which today are creating a state of international anarchy and instability from which there is no escape through mere isolation or neutrality.... When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own... sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit... or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not ... the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She's just a child, but I'm the one who's fainthearted.... She's the woman, but I'm the coward. She bears that high, swollen set of breasts, but I'm the one who's burdened. The heavy hips are hers, but I'm unable to move. It's a wonder how clumsy I've become because of flaws that shelter themselves in another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »