A Quote by Alan Huffman

Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.

Alan Huffman

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Alive Anyone Apocalyptic Bubonic Plague Century Chaos Close Death Event Experienced Outbreak Plague Something Widespread

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Alan Huffman
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Only if there's an outbreak of the bubonic plague.

Giovanni Trapattoni

We imagine 'the end' as a world-devastating event, but every time there's a terrible earthquake, a tsunami, an outbreak of disease - that's apocalyptic, on a micro-scale.

Marjorie Liu

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

Alice Walker

I could do without the Bubonic Plague.

Jeri Ryan

The Bears treat offense as if it's bubonic plague.

Tony Kornheiser

The Bears treat offense as if its bubonic plague.

Tony Kornheiser

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

Barbara Tuchman

Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by which epidemic diseases contributed to the destruction of classical civilization. Christianity owes a formidable debt to bubonic plague and to smallpox, no less than to earthquake and volcanic eruptions.

Hans Zinsser

Among women, guilt spreads with the rampant fury of bubonic plague. ... I used to feel guilty if the cat had matted fur.

Sue Thoele

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

Barbara Tuchman

If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.

Barbara Amiel

I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.

Julian Fellowes

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

Aldous Huxley

Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague.

Hendrik Poinar

It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me the same as saying that the three great developments in twentith century engineering are the airplane, the computer, and the pop-top aluminum can. Chaos and fractals are not even twentieth century ideas: chaos was first observed by Poincare and fractals were familiar to Cantor a century ago, although neither man had the computer at his disposal to show the rest of the world the beauty he was seeing.

Robert L. Devaney

When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.

S. J. Rozan

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