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“It was believed that all creation came from thought, language, and mathematics.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

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“People said love was the antidote to hate, that it could mend what was most broken, and give hope in the most hopeless of times.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

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“To try to prevent some of these problems, in 2015 the World Health Organization issued guidelines stipulating that disease names should not make reference to specific places, people, animals or food.”
― Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

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“When asked what was the biggest disaster of the twentieth century, almost nobody answers the Spanish flu.”
― Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

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“Assuming that you had a place you could call home, the optimal strategy was to stay there (but not immure yourself), not answer the door (especially to doctors), jealously guard your hoard of food and water, and ignore all pleas for help. Not only would this improve your own chances of staying alive, but if everyone did it, the density of susceptible individuals would soon fall below the threshold required to sustain the epidemic, and it would extinguish itself.”
― Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

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