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• Unhappiness can be like a virus spreading from one person, to the next person, to the next one and so on. When someone is mean or rude to you, do not let their unhappiness infect your own life. If you are the unhappy one, please quarantine yourself so you do not infect others!

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Mean, Rude, Unhappy

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• We do not have an outbreak of Ebola in the United States. Nowhere. We do have two health care workers who contracted the disease from a dying man. They are isolated. There is no information to suggest that the virus has spread to anyone in the general population in America. Not one person in the general population in the United States.

  Shepard Smith

  Men, Ebola, Two

  "Smith: Ebola panic 'not worth the ratings'" by Hadas Gold, www.politico.com. October 15, 2014.

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• There's very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.

  Bernie Siegel

  Vaccines, Miracle, Antibiotics

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• One by one, I could find a house that somebody had restored properly, and then another one, and now it's like a virus. Everybody in Palm Springs wants to do it.

  William Krisel

  Spring, House, Want

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Spiritual joy is devotion, it's like a virus you know? It's a benevolent virus, but it spreads. It's infectious. Ram Dass was like a mentor in those days.

  Surya Das

  Spiritual, Joy, Mentor

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• A mind virus is different in that there is no form to it; these are ideas placed in our heads when we are little. We get programmed by well-meaning people like our parents and their parents, our culture, religions and schools. We get conditioned to believe in our limitations and what's not possible.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, School, Culture Religion

  Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.awaken.com. October 22, 2012.

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• What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?

  John Updike

  Sex, Health, Order

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.230, Random House

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• Borna virus is not a retrovirus. It doesn't actually insert its own genes into our cells. What it does is just hangs out near our DNA and uses some of the molecular machinery to copy itself.

  Carl Zimmer

  Dna, Cells, Doe

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.

  Gore Vidal

  Moving, Presidential, Fever

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• That the horrible Zika virus or HIV, we can look at what it means to be patient zero, what it means to need not much contact to spread, and all of those things follow into the way ideas spread.

  Seth Godin

  Zero, Mean, Ideas

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.

  Nate Mendel

  Pregnancy, Hiv, Flu

  "Foo Fighter Fires Back" by Nate Mendel, www.motherjones.com. March 10, 2000.

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• Or, if I take that same auditorium and I make it much bigger and put more space between seats, it'll be quieter because it's much harder when you're not in physical contact with people to spread a virus from person-to-person, right? There are all sorts of patterns that we see in epidemiology that help us understand why something spreads.

  Seth Godin

  Epidemiology, Space, People

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• One of the big challenges now is to figure out just how many viruses there really are in the human genome. So far the estimate is 8.3% of our genome is virus, but it actually could be a lot higher.

  Carl Zimmer

  Challenges, Figures, Bigs

  Source: bigthink.com

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• People decline invitations when they are "indisposed" physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Party, People, Wish

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• If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place to look for it. You're just looking at a bunch of viruses.

  Carl Zimmer

  Ideas, Identity, Looks

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think educating myself has been huge. I feel like the way it's presented in the media is that if you got to Brazil you're flipping a coin on your health. I don't think it has to be that way. If I were wanting to have a baby right after the Olympics I would take precautions, and then when the Olympics were over I would get tested to make sure I didn't have the virus in me, and then I'd go for it.

  Kerri Walsh

  Baby, Thinking, Media

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Civilization, Information, Environment

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• There was something that was killing the people in the interior, in the forest area, of the country, and nobody quite knew what it was. That lasted a good three months before it was officially declared that it was Ebola virus. So it started off in Guinea and spread quite slowly, but then spread over the border into Sierra Leone and Liberia.

  Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

  Country, Ebola, People

  "World Health Organization Declares Guinea Ebola-Free". "All Things Considered" with Renee Montagne, wuwm.com. December 30, 2015.

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• The key to HIV/AIDS was to say let's give a patient multiple different therapies at the same time and that makes the virus much less likely to mutate.

  Laurie Glimcher

  Keys, Giving, Different

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• With regard to the alternatives, we already have them. The cellular and genetic lines of research in humans are the most promising. AIDS is caused by a virus, so it makes sense to study the virus, not chimpanzees. We have learned virtually nothing about AIDS from the chimpanzee. Every major advance in AIDS research ... has come from human studies.

  Roger Fouts

  Atheism, Alternatives, Research

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• Anti-Semitism is best understood as a virus. It has no logic. Jews were hated because they were rich and because they were poor; because they were capitalists and because they were communists; because they held tenaciously to an ancient faith and because they were rootless cosmopolitans, believing nothing. Hate needs no logic. It is a sickness of the soul.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Hate, Believe, Soul

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• A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Men, Trying

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• When you're a hammer (as the saying goes), all your problems look like nails. If you're a meteorite expert pondering the sudden extinction of boatloads of species, you'll want to say an impact did it. If you're an igneous petrologist, volcanoes did it. If you're into spaceborne bioclouds, an interstellar virus did it. If you're a hypernova expert, gamma rays did it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Impact, Volcanoes, Rays

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.281, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.

  Freya Stark

  Christian, Practice, Giving

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• With 30,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations from the seasonal flu, those numbers are certainly higher than what we've seen of the swine flu. Protecting yourself from both viruses is very important.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Numbers, Important, Flu

  "Kristi Yamaguchi, Olympic Ice Skater, Pushes Seasonal Flu Shots" by Amanda Gardner, abcnews.go.com. August 29, 2009.

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