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Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology. -- Jill Lepore
The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd say, 'Well I've mostly done what I want to do.' But how could you ever prevent a few years down the line some germ of an idea getting at you and you've got to do it again? -- Graham Swift

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