"It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's a virus that might be HIV for example."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Carl Zimmer

#Example Quotes #Viruses Quotes #Hiv Quotes

“If a few nations step forward and begin changing the narrative of 'us and them' to 'everyone,' we will see a new dawn. If a few nations begin actually making operational a verification system we can all depend upon and push to bring all into such a system, we will all benefit.”
“A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.”
“But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new -- that's my point.”
“We can't really have a serious debate about reform on immigration if we don't have operational control of the border. ... With the executive order out there, with the urgency of the threat, I think it's very likely that we'll get something passed, later this year.”

Source : "Becerra expects immigration bill soon" by Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com. February 13, 2013.
“I do think certain kinds of music can make you violent. Like, when I listen to Nickelback, it makes me want to kill Nickelback.”
“Saeed quickly found employment at a Banana Republic, where he would sell to urban sophisticates the black turtleneck of the season, in a shop whose name was synonymous with colonial exploitation and the rapacious ruin of the third world.”
“It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?”
“The person that loves the least, controls the relationship”

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