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"The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets."
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"I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything."
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"I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself."
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"Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture."
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"A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea."
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"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."
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"I was a very early believer in the idea of convergence."
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"All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman."
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"You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels."
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"I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons."
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"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
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"The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets."
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"Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices."
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"Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?"
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"Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves."
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"Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said."
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"Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s."
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