"The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus."

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Source : "Ebola Epidemic 'Out of Control'", abcnews.go.com. August 3, 2014.

Joshua Lederberg

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“Whether you like me or you don't, I still dig showing up for work.”
“What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.”

Source : "My family and other actors". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2003.
“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”
“I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed but have changed my life, the lives of everyone I know, all the people I'll never know. I thought about life without the sun, the moon, stars, without flowers and warm days in May. I thought about a year ago and all the good things I'd taken for granted and all the unbearable things that had replaced those simple blessings. And even though I hated the thought of crying in from of Syl, tears streamed down my face.”
“In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of specialists in the field, virtually everyone senses that anything which offers less than this passion play remains philosophically trivial. Cultural anthropologists suggest the appealing term 'deep play' for the comprehensively absorbing preoccupations of human beings. From the perspective of a theory of the practising life we would add: the deep plays are those which are moved by the heights.”

Source : Peter Sloterdijk (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.24, John Wiley & Sons
“Heading to Paris when I was 17 and modelling exposed me to high fashion, which influenced me to dress on-trend - not extravagantly, but always in fashion.”
“Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and The Cosby show. She doesn't shrink from the realities of life in an inner city funeral home, but she is also a loving witness, documenting the big hearted community that takes care of its own. Told with compassion, wit, and good old fashioned story telling, Sheri Booker gives us unforgettable characters who will make you laugh right up until they break your heart.”
“False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.”

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