Immunity Quotes

• To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Democracy, Citizens, Importance

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.660, Routledge

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• Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.

  John W. Campbell

  Absolutes

  Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine, 1970.

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• No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

  Larry McMurtry

  Money, Car, Self Improvement

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Some Can Whistle”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Important, Care, My Family

  "Lewinsky interview excerpts". www.deseretnews.com. March 4, 1999.

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• In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Choices, God Love, Cases

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• In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.

  Michael Behe

  Eye, Cells, Black

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• No one can hurt me - that's my job.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Hurt, Jobs

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2011

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• Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

  C. S. Lewis

  Difficulty

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• If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Fire, Greatest Victory, Tactics

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• The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Hate, Character, Presidential

  1950 'Declaration of Conscience' address to the Senate,1 Jun, denouncing accusations by Senator Joseph R McCarthy.

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• Owning a newspaper does not confer immunity.

  Alexander Lebedev

  Doe, Newspapers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

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• There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I'm sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury.

  Patty Hearst

  Two, People, Granted

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• With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Years, Vaccines, Viruses

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• it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had most immunities myself - the result of an independent income combined with a personality completely devoid of sexual attractions - the two fires of poverty and passion have therefore never burned me, and I am a lesser person for my safety.

  Winifred Holtby

  Passion, Independent, Fire

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.

  George Washington

  America, Giving, Liberty

  George Washington, Edward Frank Humphrey (1932). “George Washington on religious liberty and mutual understanding: selections from Washington's letters”

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• There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Ideas, Cuckoos, Earth

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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• I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Sympathy, Heart, Doctors

  "Star Trek: The Immunity Syndrome". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1968.

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• Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the perpetrators, and for allowing the terrible facts to be sunk deep in the memory hole. All of this is of great significance, as it has been in the past.

  Noam Chomsky

  Memories, Past, Church

  Noam Chomsky (2001). “9-11 [neuf-onze]”, p.46, Seven Stories Press

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• The private and personal blessings we enjoy- the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Integrity

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• LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Temporary Insanity, Patient

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

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• Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.

  Napoleon Hill

  Adversity, Giving, Benefits

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• Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.

  Barack Obama

  Nsa, Protection, Congress

  "Obama’s Statement On Dodd And Filibuster", shadowproof.com. December 17, 2007.

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• Happiness is an immunity.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Happiness

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (1988). “Selected stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Vintage

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• Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.

  Nella Larsen

  Lying, People, Hypocrisy

  Nella Larsen (2014). “Quicksand & Passing”, p.27, Serpent's Tail

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