"Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die."

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Source : "It's Spreading" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. June 1, 2009.

Jill Lepore

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“I don't see myself going back to blonde outside of work though. I really like the red.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.”
“Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.”
“If you've got a cat and a leg, you've got a happy cat. If you've got a cat and two legs, you've got a party.”
“I like to think about music as a sport. But only in terms of golf, as far as the course being music and me being the golfer. So it's competitive but only with yourself. With the last one doing well, it made it a challenge to feel like I was improving in some way.”
“Teaching my kids to give back is an essential part of parenting. It's not something that's optional. Compassion is one of the basic values that I want my children to have: that if they see a need, whether it's around the corner or thousands of miles of away, they should feel motivated to do whatever they can to help.”
“Magnetic current is the same as electric current. Current is [actually] the wrong expression. Really it is not one current, they are two currents, one current is composed of North Pole individual magnets in concentrated streams and the other is composed of South Pole individual magnets in concentrated streams, and they are are running one stream against the other stream in whirling, screwlike fashion, and with high speed.”
“In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.”

Source : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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