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“How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?”

Kind Environment Disease Intelligent Method Threat Species Unwanted Silent Spring Disease And Death

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.”

Humans Littles Has Beens War Done Causes Race Disease Intelligent Endure Human Race Epidemics

Book:Of Men and Women

Source: Of Men and Women

“[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.”

Love Love Is Type Disease Intelligent Intelligence Stupidity Spares Idiotic

Author:Albert Camus

“The supernatural is being swept out of the universe in the flood of new knowledge of what is natural. It will soon be as impossible for an intelligent, educated man or woman to believe in a god as it is now to believe that earth is flat, that flies can be spontaneously generated, that disease is a divine punishment, or that death is always due to witchcraft.”

Men Believe Earth Universe Natural Impossible Divine Disease Intelligent Dues Punishment Educated Flats Flood Witchcraft Educated Man New Knowledge

Author:Thomas Huxley

“In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition or disease - that they achieve their full potential. We take for Warren [Buffett] things that, because he's very intelligent about the world but doesn't get to go out in Africa and see what we see, we've taken and say to him where we stand and it's basically a very positive report that his gift has made a phenomenal difference.”

“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”

Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

“We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.”

Awareness Disease Capable Intelligent Saved Insanity

Book:On Love: A Novel

Source: On Love: A Novel

“Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafraid; and build in the world a culture led by black folk and joined by peoples of all colors and all races - without poverty, ignorance and disease!”

Men World Young Humanity Culture Black Chance Walks Race Poverty Ignorance Color Civilization Healthy Disease Intelligent Folks Devotion Lifts Young Man Young Women Banner Unafraid

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help himself in diseases, and be able to understand and to judge what physicians say and what they administer to his body, being versed in each of these matters to a degree reasonable for a layman.”

Men Humans Matter Helping Body Able Values Understanding Human Beings Judging Health Disease Degrees Intelligent Medicine Reasonable Physicians Considering Layman

Book:Hippocrates

Source: Hippocrates