"While the nature of Texas fever is by no means made clear as yet, we are able to affirm that ticks can produce it. Whether the disease can be transmitted by any other agency must be decided by future investigations. Meanwhile the evidence accumulated thus far seems to favor very strongly the dictum: No ticks, no Texas fever."

-- Theobald Smith

#Nature Quotes #Mean Quotes #Agency Quotes

“The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.”
“Don't be afraid to hit the ball.”
“When honor comes to you, be ready to take it; But reach not to seize it before it is near.”

Source : John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”
“When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain. Put the time in. Hear your mistakes. Yeah, it sucks, it's humbling, it makes you want to throw the guitar out the window. But if you work on your mistakes, they'll eventually go away, and you'll become a strong player.”
“I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness ... that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan.”
“Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.”
“A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.”
“It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home”

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