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Virus particles contain single molecules of nucleic acid. -- Alfred Hershey
I call wild niggas together like Cyrus, And knock off more birds than the West Nile Virus. -- Bumpy Knuckles
The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus. -- William S. Burroughs
Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has to be living in some reservoir host, presumably some species of animal. -- David Quammen
I'm the founder of the McAfee Anti-Virus Software Company. Although I have had nothing to do with this company for over 15 years, I still get volumes of mail asking 'how do I uninstall this software'. I have no idea. -- John McAfee
Language is a virus from outer space. -- William S. Burroughs
An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it. -- James Lovelock
After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many. -- Glenn Turner
Dance music is like a virus: it has affected so many different genres. -- Avicii
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. -- Maya Angelou
The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation. -- Margaret Chan
You can't take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus. -- David Quammen
I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like. -- Jonas Salk
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. -- Craig Raine
Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive. -- Frances Mayes
The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied. -- Jeremiah Wright
We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation. -- James Gleick
We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. -- Jeremiah Wright
National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood. -- Tariq Ramadan
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
Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of. -- Stephen Hawking
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
Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who typically becomes sick and in many cases dies. Along the way, the host infects others. -- Alan Huffman
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
If an employee told you he had the flu, you'd send him home. If an employee told you he was feeling anxious, you'd probably tell him to get back to work. But the emotion is just as contagious as a flu virus. -- Chip Conley
Ebola isn't a respiratory virus. It doesn't spread through the airborne route. So it's not likely to spread like wildfire around the world and kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. That's what I think of as the next big one. -- David Quammen
Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus. -- Paul Bloom
Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form. -- William S. Burroughs
When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that virus at the time, I felt a moral obligation to go out and try to stem the fear and get out and explain to people what the disease was and how it worked. -- Morgan Fairchild
In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of 'The Selfish Gene,' I did actually use the metaphor of a 'virus.' So when anybody talks about something going viral on the Internet, that is exactly what a meme is, and it looks as though the word has been appropriated for a subset of that. -- Richard Dawkins
I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I knew who'd gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called 'Angels in America.' I've never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it. -- Tony Kushner
Conviction's contagious as virus spreads. -- Toba Beta
The word is now a virus. -- William S. Burroughs
Humanity is just a virus with shoes. -- Bill Hicks
hate is a virus, revenge its only cure! -- Eric Jerome Dickey
Form is the host; content is the virus. -- Jeff Noon
Help cure the world of the faith virus. -- Peter Boghossian
Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease. -- Peter HÃ¸eg
For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must. -- Kevin Mitnick
Laughter is a virus that infects you with humanity. -- Luis Alberto Urrea
I can become a positive virus, a hope virus. -- Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways. -- Ansel Elgort
Language is a virus, money is a nasty disease. -- Jonathan Barnbrook
The AIDS virus is not more powerful than God. -- Marianne Williamson
Wife is like a virus that hacks your privacy. -- Junaid e Mustafa
Every time somebody new gets the Ebola virus, it mutates. -- Glenn Beck
My dream: to be able to drive a virus-powered car. -- Angela Belcher
Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus. -- Robert Herjavec
Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made. -- Craig Venter
Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear. -- Dan Brown
Lyc-V is a jealous virus. It exterminates all other invaders with extreme prejudice. -- Ilona Andrews
It started with feelings of jealousy and like a mental virus it spread. -- Dermot Davis
Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres -- Avicii
The virus-to-cancer connection is where medicinal mushrooms offer unique opportunities for medical research. -- Paul Stamets
The underground and the alternative is going to be substituted with being a virus. -- Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus. -- Joshua Lederberg
I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes. -- Bill Hicks
If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus? -- Richard Dawkins
At first, many people infected with the zombie virus experienced similar symptoms to Ebola. -- Andrew Cormier
Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions. -- Serge Lang
A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect. -- Emile M. Cioran
Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus! -- Steve Simmons
The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens. -- Luc Montagnier
Our society has made it extremely difficult for those livingwith the virus to declare their status -- Oche Otorkpa
Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. -- Richard Dawkins
Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control. -- Immortal Technique
There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host. -- Mira Grant
The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it. -- Kary Mullis
People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus. -- Christian McKay
EBOLA VIRUS put humanity at a great risk. We must act now and together to prevent further crisis. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
If everyone catches the cold virus it just... might make you fall into Onew Condition for a while! -- Onew
Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus. -- Luc Montagnier
Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable. -- Amanda Palmer
Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal. -- Rebecca Skloot
I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs. -- Barbara Woodhouse
We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus. -- Dustin Hoffman
"¦there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus. -- John Irving
People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus. -- Christian McKay
The joke is that U2's new record only looked like a virus. Enjoy mining bitcoins for me losers. -- Thom Yorke
We all inherit damage from the past. We spread it like a virus and don't generally think about it. -- Thomas Norman DeWolf
Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive. -- Frances Mayes
Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing. -- Alan Moore
People called '28 Days' and '28 Weeks' zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus; they're not dead. -- George A. Romero
Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning. -- Phil Gingrey
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. -- Craig Raine
Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further. -- Jack Pritchard
Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person]. -- Darrel Ray
If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels. -- Prince Philip
Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again. -- Marita Golden
The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world. -- Margaret Chan
It had initially been thought that the zombie virus was an offshoot of Ebola. Many zombie-virus symptoms mimicked the terrible, hemorrhagic fever. -- Andrew Cormier
Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening. -- Phil Plait
Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech. -- Jasper Fforde
One smile heals the planet because it spreads like a virus from one to the next without care for the perfect environment. -- Monika Zands
Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew. -- Mika
Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease. -- Charles Fourier
I caught the happy virus last night When I was out singing beneath the stars. It is remarkably contagious - So kiss me. -- Hafez
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
Cinder twisted up her lips. "Do you think it could have a virus?" "Maybe her programming was overwhelmed by Prince Kai's uncanny hotness. -- Marissa Meyer
To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus. -- Philip K. Dick
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
We have a show tonight. I've never missed a show. Not even the time I had that virus they kept saying only raccoons get. -- LIZ
In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation. -- Prince Philip
When you put someone on therapy, you lower the level of virus such that it makes it very difficult for them to infect others. -- Anthony S. Fauci
In the short term, some deadly virus might be more important, but in the long run there is hardly anything more important than asteroids. -- Rusty Schweickart
A virus is not just DNA; a virus is also packaged up, covered over with a series of proteins in a nice, elegant, well-compacted form. -- Francis Collins
Telling people at a dinner party you drive a Nissan Almera is like telling them you've got the Ebola virus and you're about to sneeze. -- Jeremy Clarkson
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red. -- Molly Caldwell Crosby
Just as I am not upset with somebody who has caught a cold, so too I am not upset with somebody who's caught the faith virus. -- Peter Boghossian
Does HIV cause AIDS? Can a virus cause a syndrome? How? It can't, because a syndrome is a group of diseases resulting from acquired immune deficiency. -- Thabo Mbeki
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. -- Henry Miller
New technologies can be used for destructive purposes. The answer is to develop rapid-response systems for new dangers like a bioterrorist creating a new biological virus. -- Ray Kurzweil
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The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast. -- Carl Zimmer
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, III
Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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
As variable as flu is, HIV makes flu look like the Rock of Gibraltar. The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted. -- Seth Berkley

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