"When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and are born, you're no longer in a sterile environment. Very quickly you have bacteria living on your skin, in your nose and throat."

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Source : "Paul Offit On The Anti-Vaccine Movement". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 7, 2011.

Paul A. Offit

#Skins Quotes #Noses Quotes #Bacteria Quotes

“Never give up. No one knows what's going to happen next.”
“We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.”
“The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.”
“Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves.”
“I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.”
“Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.”

Source : Said before the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805, in G. L. Newnham Collingwood (ed.) 'A Selection from the Correspondence of Lord Collingwood' (1828) vol. 1, p. 168
“You're only as old as your spine.”
“Each person makes their own choice, but my spirit is meant to stay in Iran, especially with the work that I do, and with the emotional connection I have with the country - with all its difficulties, this is why I stay.”

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