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• Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?

  Barbara Walters

  Fire, Hug, President

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• There's something about comedy, funny things, that people want to pass them along. Serious things and personal things are much more privately enjoyed. That's why there are not a lot of sad viral videos.

  Jonathan Coulton

  Music, Funny Things, People

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• We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming all day until you spread it to someone else. Jokes. Urban legends. Crackpot religions. Marxism. No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.

  Neal Stephenson

  Smart, Urban Legends, Self

  "Snow Crash". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1992.

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• Observing and understanding the social media phenomenon is one thing-leveraging this trend for advertising purposes is quite another. While most companies recognize the value of social media advertising opportunities, not many have figured out how to execute these kinds of campaigns and the unique risks they entail because of the potential that a viral marketing effort can backfire and actually harm a brand.

  Stephen Jin-Woo Kim

  Business, Unique, Opportunity

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• Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Years, Growth, Tools

  "Startup School". Interview with Jason Kincaid, www.washingtonpost.com. October 24, 2009.

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• Everything is happening faster on the Internet, so advertisers have to be able to respond quickly. If there is a pop-culture topic, a celebrity, event, some amazing viral video, a news story - how do advertisers get close to that so they can take advantage of traffic jumps?

  Jason Hirschhorn

  News Stories, Events, Culture

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• Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.

  Nick Denton

  Cat, Campaigns, Video

  "Gawker unveils new comments system and Nick Denton immediately uses it to pick fight with BuzzFeed" by Brian Braiker, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2012.

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• Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases!

  Patch Adams

  Laughter, Cancer, Fighting

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• Remember laughing? Laughter enhances the blood flow to the body’s extremities and improves cardiovascular function. Laughter releases endorphins and other natural mood elevating and pain-killing chemicals, improves the transfer of oxygen and nutrients to internal organs. Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases!

  Patch Adams

  Laughter, Pain, Cancer

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• I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.

  William Shatner

  Thinking, Ideas, Fans

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• Polio has not been eradicated by vaccination, it is lurking behind a redefinition and new diagnostic names like viral or aseptic meningitis.......According to one of the 1997 issues of the MMWR, there are some 30,000 to 50,000 cases of viral meningitis per year in the United States alone. That's where all those 30,000 - 50,000 cases of polio disappeared after the introduction of mass vaccination

  Viera Scheibner

  Years, Names, Issues

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• Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.

  Don DeLillo

  Technique, Agents, Kind

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.169, Pan Macmillan

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• Keep making music.. Keep improving your music.. If there's no viral action on your music, you're just not good enough. Don't get mad at the audience, get mad at yourself. Either give up or get better.

  Bob Lefsetz

  Giving Up, Mad, Not Good Enough

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• If you are going truly viral, you don't need press. I mean, MySpace grew for a very long time without any press.

  Michael Birch

  Mean, Long, Needs

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• Being vegan or vegetarian isn't just about compassion for animals. Most of the destruction of the planet is the result of all the clear-cutting, groundwater contamination, grain production, fuel consumption, greenhouse gas, viral proliferation - the direct result of livestock production.

  William McNamara

  Cutting, Compassion, Animal

  "Animal Activist and Star of Copycat William McNamara: On Killing Dolphins and Eating Sushi". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There are laws that only apply to people with HIV - we're becoming a viral underclass.

  Sean Strub

  Law, People, Hiv

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Most people who are HIV positive are on drugs and that gets their viral load so low that it's harder to transmit it. Most new infections come from people who don't know they're infected.

  Dale Peck

  People, Drug, Hiv

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I, 100 percent don't think that's where the American people at, because when there's viral pictures as a baby is in Aleppo with, you know, rubble all over them going viral, and then there are celebrities tweeting why haven't we done nothing about this? And like, oh, there are actually many people for years who've been trying to send aid then and this president won't let us.

  John McCain

  Baby, Thinking, Years

  "Clinton, Trump square off in commander-in-chief forum". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. September 8, 2016.

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• When I started off in DC, you didn't get viral first. You got funny first.

  Donnell Rawlings

  Firsts

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• I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact — the more influence you had, the more impact you could create. . . . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.

  Emerson Spartz

  Impact, Influence, Ability

  "The Virologist" by Andrew Marantz, www.newyorker.com. January 5, 2015.

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• Here is how you know someone has had a good idea: Other people freely admit to their friends that said idea has changed their lives. Most people today will grant that fire and the wheel are the big two. After that, any attempts to rank the greatest ideas of all time are going to draw lots of argument. You’ll have zealots pimping this god or that on the one hand, scientists pimping Darwin on the other, and then practical people pointing at written language and saying, look, fellas, the reason those ideas have gone viral is because someone figured out how to write them down.

  Kevin Hearne

  Writing, Fire, Hands

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.643, Del Rey

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• If somebody writes a review of a dry cleaner, that piece of content is not wildly viral. It's not like a viral video that can spread across the world in a matter of minutes, so as a result, each market is almost an island unto itself.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Writing, Islands, Video

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• One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to bear even good judgment when it so passes by, still everyone, inevitably, has a viral opinion (judgment) about everything and everyone, but little skill in good judgment as its verification or harness.

  Criss Jami

  Mistake, Teaching, Skills

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.37, Criss Jami

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• Clothing is viral, impermanent in a way that public art cannot be. So I like thinking of how corporate-created clothing can be seen as a form of public art.

  Jim Drain

  Art, Thinking, Way

  "Jim Drain Wants to Make The Gap of Art". Interview with Ken Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Already, viral contamination offers an initial response to the question of the downside of electronic circuits, but another area of research beckons the area of ecological pollution. The pollution not only of air, water, and other substances, but also the unperceived pollution of distances.

  Paul Virilio

  Distance, Air, Water

  Paul Virilio (1997). “Open Sky”, p.40, Verso

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