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Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility.

~Brendan I. Koerner

Topics: About After American Ended Ending Epidemic Folks Futility Had Happy Happy Ending Most Odds Once Plane Pretty Rate Remember Slim Success Were You Your

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Despite all the attention paid to the obesity epidemic and the growing prevalence of preventable diseases, in the U.S. - as a society and as an industry - we've made health hard, even as our daily lives become easier.

~Bruce Broussard

Topics: Attention Become Daily Daily Lives Despite Diseases Easier Epidemic Even Growing Hard Health Industry Lives Made Obesity Our Paid Society

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Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

~Carl Jung

Topics: Always Breeding Epidemic Grounds Masses Psychic

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As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

~Charles B. Rangel

Topics: Against Aids Commit Defeat Economic Epidemic Fight Justice Kinds Nation Only Ourselves Policies Should Terrorism

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Economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago persuasively argue that one of the biggest reasons for the nation's current obesity epidemic is that food is now so much cheaper and easier to prepare.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Argue Biggest Bureau Cheaper Chicago Current Easier Economic Economists Epidemic Food Much Nation National Now Obesity Prepare Reasons Research University

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I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic was happening. And I was lucky that it didn't affect my lungs or my legs. It went to my face and kind of paralyzed my vocal chords, and I wasn't able to sing. And they said I was very lucky that I would get over it, which I did.

~Charlie Haden

Topics: Able Affect Because Chords Did Epidemic Face Get Had Happening Kind Legs Lucky Lungs Now Over Over It Paralyzed Polio Said Sing Very Vocal Which Would

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In spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before.

~Christian De Duve

Topics: Advances Before Epidemic Ever Medicine Menacing More Spite Than

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I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

~Christian Slater

Topics: After Although Before Did Direct Done Epidemic Felt Had Laughter Like Lot Never Off Play Something Time Took Vacation Which

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Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.

~Cyril Ramaphosa

Topics: Against Children Class Epidemic Group Resembles Social Social Group Society Sparing Spread Through Violence Women Women And Children

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There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

~Danica Mckellar

Topics: Attractive Because Down Epidemic Girl Makes Middle Middle School Now Right School Them Themselves Think

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