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• It's really important for people who are HIV positive to reach out to let other people know that they can be tested, they can find out they can still live a life -- a positive life, a happy life.

  Laura Bush

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "First Lady Winds Up West Africa Trip". www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2006.

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• For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

  Marcel Proust

  Powerful, Doctors, Ideas

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• Emotions are far more contagious than any disease. A smile or a panic will spread through a group of people far faster than any virus ever could. When you walk into the office or a negotiation, then, wash your bad mood away before you see us. Don't cough on us, don't sneeze on us, sure, but don't bring your grouchiness, your skepticism or your fear in here either. It might spread.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Office, People

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• I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.

  Bill Hicks

  Tired, Shoes, Bullshit

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• It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another-the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter

  William S. Burroughs

  Fall, Independent, Quality

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.167, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves itself is to keep you from having any doubts, and the way it keeps you from doubting is to blind you to the way things really are. Evidence contrary to the belief can be staring you straight in the face, and you won't see it... True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.

  Philip Caputo

  Order, Doubt, Way

  Philip Caputo (2005). “Acts of Faith”, p.146, Vintage

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• Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.

  Marita Golden

  Racism, Cures, Hard

  Marita Golden (2011). “And Do Remember Me”, p.105, Ballantine Books

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• There is a striking parallel between the spreading of germs and the spreading of ideas or propaganda. On the one hand we are dealing with a virus which can be transported and transmitted under certain conditions which favor or limit its transportation or transmission: on the other hand with ideas, religions, and doctrines, which can be described as germs, benevolent or malevolent, according to the point of view one takes up. These germs can either remain at their source and be sterile, or emerge in the spreading of infection.

  Andre Siegfried

  Views, Hands, Ideas

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• An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, War, Technology

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

  Jasper Fforde

  Dream, World, Speech

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• Doubt is a virus that attacks our self-esteem, productivity and confidence. Faith that you and your life are perfectly unfolding is the strongest vaccine.

  Sean Stephenson

  Self Esteem, Positivity, Vaccines

  FaceBook post by Sean Stephenson from Jan 11, 2011

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• Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.

  Serge Lang

  Hiv, Screening, Transmission

  Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.618, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.

  David Hasselhoff

  Play, People, Tears

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• As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat.

  Glenn Turner

  Change, Made, Combat

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• We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one, and we are now facing the sixth mass extinction in cosmological history. If any other organism did this, a biologist would consider them a virus.

  Philip Wollen

  Animal, Mass Extinction, Years

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• For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Home, Average, Software

  "Talk time: Kevin Mitnick". Interview with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2003.

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• Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.

  Henry Miller

  Reflection, Becoming, Process

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.194, New Directions Publishing

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• The underground and the alternative is going to be substituted with being a virus.

  Jean-Charles de Castelbajac

  Alternatives

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

  Prince Philip

  Ebola, Wish, Population

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• Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

  Rebecca Skloot

  Cells, Mutation, Immortal Life

  Rebecca Skloot (2011). “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, p.161, Pan Macmillan

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• [Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.

  Max Delbruck

  Children, Science, Ambitious

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• Harmful bacteria, viruses, calcium-forming micro-organisms, and candida are part of our world. Unfortunately, so are toxic chemicals, including everything from pesticides to car pollution to nuclear radiation to most municipal tap waters.

  David Wolfe

  Our World, Water, Car

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• Help cure the world of the faith virus.

  Peter Boghossian

  Religion, World, Helping

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• Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

  Charles Fourier

  Civilization, Vices, Disease

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• The way that worms and viruses spread on the Internet is not that different from the way they spread in the real world, and the way you quarantine them is not that different, either.

  David Ulevitch

  Real, World, Quarantine

  "Meet David Ulevitch, CEO of OpenDNS" by Suzanne Herel, www.sfgate.com. September 26, 2010.

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