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  • Beespittle, droppings, hairs of beefur: all become honey. Virulent micro-organisms cannot survive in honey. -- Denise Levertov
  • In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent ... -- John Connally
  • Success is virulent. Once you get the bug then it's in you. -- Steve Backley
  • A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth. -- Anton Chekhov
  • Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition. -- Jon Krakauer
  • We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. -- Gilbert Adair
  • The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. -- Simone Weil
  • Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations. -- Susan Jacoby
  • Among the cancers devouring the American body politic, one of the most virulent involves liberals who play the race card as carelessly as children playing 52 Pickup. -- Deroy Murdock
  • Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined). -- Susan Sontag
  • All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition. -- Bertrand Russell
  • There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. -- Helen Thomas
  • Larry's zombie bag was a nearly virulent green with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it. I was almost afraid to ask what his vampire bag looked like. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
  • It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists. -- Neal Stephenson
  • Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying. -- Chuck Jones
  • The "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness" is part of the identity, but not the most important part. -- Hendrik Hertzberg
  • Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories arent often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc. -- Jill Lepore
  • Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories aren't often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc. -- Jill Lepore
  • We believe in the art of war. We are trying to get our competition to attack us with angry, virulent energy, so we can transform that into larger market share. -- Marc Benioff
  • Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world. -- John Milton
  • When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it. -- Herbert Hoover
  • I still am a virulent anti-communist. It is a bad system, an immoral system, and one that takes away the rights of people and the rights of individuals. And everywhere it's gone, it's failed. -- Joe Lhota
  • The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom. -- Shimon Peres
  • The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring binde -- Neal Stephenson
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