“Throughout Asia and Europe, pearls were traditionally believed to ease a range of conditions, including eye diseases, fever, insomnia, 'female complaints', dysentery, whooping cough, measles, loss of virility, and bed-wetting ... Though nobody seems to advertise the potential for pearls to cure bed-wetting anymore.” SeemsEyeLossConditionsBedDiseaseEuropeFemaleIncludingCuresRangeEaseComplaintsPearlsAsiaInsomniaFeverMeaslesWhooping CoughDysentery Book:Jewels: A Secret History Source: Jewels: A Secret History
“Everywhere you look - Britain, the States, western Europe - people are sealing themselves into crime-free enclaves. That's a mistake - a certain level of crime is part of the necessary roughage of life. Total security is a disease of deprivation.” PeopleLooksStatesCertainLevelsMistakeSecurityCrimeDiseaseEuropeWesternBritainDeprivationWestern Europe Author:J. G. Ballard
“In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.” MindHas BeensWarGenerationsDiseaseEuropePatientLeap Author:Storm Jameson
“1,000 cows in the U.S. are alive at night and dead in the morning. These cows on the ground are ground into feed, making their fellows not only carnivores but cannibals. Europe after Mad Cows' Disease has banned this practice. The U.S has not yet.” NightPracticeMorningAliveDiseaseEuropeFellowsMadCowsBannedCannibalCarnivoresMad Cow Disease Author:Howard Lyman
“I don't regard fundamentalism in the United States or in Europe as a terrible threat, partly because it is a self-curing disease. The younger generation drifts away, so fundamentalists always have to recruit to keep up with themselves.” SelfStatesUnitedUnited StatesGenerationsTerribleDiseaseEuropeRegardThreatFundamentalismYounger GenerationRecruit Author:Ninian Smart
“Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across Europe, there are six times more cold-related deaths than heat-related deaths...by 2050...Warmer temperatures will save 1.4 million lives each year.” YearsDiesEnergyMillionsEnvironmentColdDiseaseSixEuropeWinterClimate ChangeWaveHeatRelatedBritainExcessTemperatureHeat Wave Author:Bjorn Lomborg
“The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The spirit that shrinks from enquiry as sinful and deems a state of doubt a state of guilt, is the most enduring disease that can afflict the mind of man. Not till the education of Europe passed from the monasteries to the universities, not till Mohammedan science, and classical free thought, and industrial independence broke the sceptre of the Church, did the intellectual revival of Europe begin.” MenMindHumansStatesWholeSpiritReligionChurchDoubtPeriodsDiseaseIntellectualEuropeCatholicIndependenceGuiltEndureUniversityBrokeHuman MindShrinksRevivalMonasteriesEnquiryFree ThoughtAscendancy Author:William Edward Hartpole Lecky