“ For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria. ”
- Richard Dawkins- Copy
“ Using the analogy of the human mind as a computer, gossip can be compared to a computer virus. ”
- Don Miguel Ruiz- Copy
“ Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious. ”
- Wangari Maathai- Copy
“ Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
“ Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable. ”
- Amanda Heggs- Copy
“ Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. ”
- William S. Burroughs- Copy
“ Great writers arrive among us like new diseases — threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. ”
- Craig Raine- Copy
“ Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors. ”
- James F. Bell- Copy
“ A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
“ A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It's the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete. ”
- Arthur Ashe- Copy
“ A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes - and it will come - may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system. ”
- Jane Smiley- Copy
“ I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. ”
- Stephen Hawking- Copy
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