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Quotes About Deaths

While President Obama was starting and expanding unconstitutiona l wars overseas, Bradley Manning, whose actions have caused exactly zero deaths, was shining light on the truth behind these wars.
~ Ron Paul
Through honeycombs of stone would now be wandering the passions in their clay. There would be tears and there would be strange laughter. Fierce births and deaths beneath umbrageous ceilings. And dreams and violence and disenchantment.
~ Mervyn Peake
based on UN statistics, is that before the DDT ban, malaria had become almost a minor illness. Fifty thousand deaths a year worldwide. A few years later, it was once again a global scourge. Fifty million people have died since the ban
~ Michael Crichton
We call them the Five Deaths," he said. "Isla Muerte, Isla Matanceros, Isla Pena, Isla Tacano, and Isla Sorna
~ Michael Crichton
In the end he plotted both the deaths and the restrictions imposed to prevent them, and saw that the earlier the restrictions imposed in any given outbreak, the fewer the deaths. In the case of Philadelphia, he wrote, "the closing of schools and churches, banning of public meetings, and banning of large public gatherings occurred relatively late into the epidemic"—nearly one month after the outbreak began and just a week before its peak.
~ Michael Lewis
earlier the restrictions imposed in any given outbreak, the fewer the deaths.
~ Michael Lewis
The infection fatality rate had not just a numerator (deaths) but also a denominator (infections). If you didn't know how many people had survived infection, you couldn't say how deadly the virus actually was.
~ Michael Lewis
United States, with a bit more than 4 percent of the world's population, had a bit more than 20 percent of its COVID-19 deaths.
~ Michael Lewis
That is, various social interventions would reduce infections, hospitalizations, and deaths to a tenth of what they otherwise would have been.
~ Michael Lewis
In nearly every year for at least 250 years, deaths outnumbered births in London.
~ Bill Bryson
It was Broom's habit, for instance, to do his fieldwork naked when the weather was warm, which was often. He was also known for conducting dubious anatomical experiments on his poorer and more tractable patients. When the patients died, which was also often, he would sometimes bury their bodies in his back garden to dig up for study later.
~ Bill Bryson
There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
~ Jaan Tallinn
'Scream Queens' was so much fun, kind of like a big sorority. And 'American Horror Story' is very serious, like a really hip family of middle-aged women. The deaths were fun on 'Scream Queens'; the deaths on 'Horror Story' are very real and intense, and you have to be emotionally prepped for them.
~ Billie Lourd
There are almost forty-three thousand suicides every year in America (more than the number of deaths from either breast cancer or auto accidents), yet only about half of the people who take their lives have ever received mental health treatment. "Broken" does not seem too harsh a characterization of such a system.
~ Michael Pollan
This will rise to ten million annual deaths by 2020—in part because of a massive advertising campaign to portray smoking as advanced and fashionable to young women in the developing world.
~ Carl Sagan
According to the World Health Organization, smoking kills three million people every year worldwide.
~ Carl Sagan
And funerals are pretty compared to deaths. Funerals are quiet, but deaths—not always. Sometimes their breathing is hoarse, sometimes it rattles, sometimes they cry out to you, Don't let me go! Even the old sometimes say, Don't let me go! As if you were able to stop them! Funerals are quiet with pretty flowers. And oh, what gorgeous boxes they pack them away in!
~ Tennessee Williams
Deaths from legal abortion declined fivefold between 1973 and 1985 (from 3.3 deaths to 0.4 deaths per 100,000 procedures)," reported the American Medical Association's Council on Scientific Affairs, reflecting increased physician education and skills, improvements in medical technology, and, notably, the earlier termination of pregnancy.
~ Katha Pollitt
Enoch's mind drifted in painful memory to the recent deaths of Adam and Havah. Through the years of Enoch's stay with the cave dwellers, he had become close to his forefather. Adam had died first, but Havah followed close on his heels, as she always did.
~ Brian Godawa
More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.
~ Elijah Cummings
Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.
~ Joe Murray
I think if we are at a war with an enemy country, that country is responsible for our soldiers' deaths.
~ Geeta Phogat
He showed me that the PCR tests in use for COVID could pick up evidence of weeks-old cold or flu in the nasal passages and misidentify it as "COVID-19." He explained that many colds are "coronaviruses," so I realized that a news outlet saying that 70,000 people had died of "coronavirus," without further identification, could imply more than just deaths from COVID-19.
~ Naomi Wolf
ON SEPTEMBER 2, 2009, THE TRANSNATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL GIANT Pfizer pled guilty to multiple criminal felonies. It had been marketing drugs in a way that may well have led to the deaths of people and that definitely led physicians to prescribe and patients to use pharmaceuticals in ways they were not intended.
~ Thom Hartmann