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Letter "C" » contagious
«People are contagious.»
«The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.»
Author: Marva Collins
(Educator)
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«There's something contagious about demanding freedom.»
«OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with the grin that apes a smile. Being a blind faith, it is inaccessible to the light of disproof --an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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«We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.»
«There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.»
«Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action»
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