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The more cases of Ebola infection we have, the more chances there are for the virus to mutate in a particular way that adapts it well to living in humans, replicating in humans, and perhaps transmitting from human to human.

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• To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Love
  • Love Yourself

• None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Something
  • Lifetime
  • U.S.

• I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Music
  • Me
  • Sound

• My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Marriage

• By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Time
  • You
  • First

• I say I am stronger than fear.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Fear
  • Stronger

• I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Theatre
  • Performance
  • Musical

• The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Best
  • Process

• I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • You
  • Made
  • Last

• The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Life
  • Book
  • My Life

• Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • School
  • Father
  • Society

• I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.

  

  Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
  • Find
  • Old
  • Jackson

• Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • May
  • Think
  • Plan

• I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'

  

  Laura Riding
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Nature

• Livin amuk, never givin a fuck Gimme the keys I'm drunk, and I've never driven a truck.

  

  Eminem
  • Drunk
  • Truck

• Don't knock th' weather. Nine-tenths o' th' people couldn' start a conversation if it didn' change once in a while.

  

  Kin Hubbard
  • People

• Yes, I'm an African, born and bred. My forebears arrived in South Africa in 1688. My later forebears fought the first modern anti-colonial war on the continent of Africa, against Great Britain. I'm an African, through and through, and the fact that I'm white does not detract from my total commitment to my country and through my country, to our continent.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Great
  • Country
  • War

• People have extreme beliefs about whether it is right for humans to tamper with embryos in any way at all. Sometimes the values discussion gets conflated with the science discussion. We shouldn't pretend we're having an argument about science when we're having an argument about values.

  

  Mark Walport
  • People
  • Science

• Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Summer

• The one fatwa that everyone here is probably familiar with is the Salman Rushdie fatwa, but a fatwa doesn't have to be a violent thing at all. A fatwa is simply a ruling on Islamic law; there can be fatwas on clothing.

  

  Sadakat Kadri
  • Law
  • Islamic

• Man needs to be Saved from his own Wisdom as much as from his own Righteousness, for they produce one and the same corruption. Nothing saves a man from his own righteousness, but that which delivers him from his own wisdom.

  

  William Law
  • Men
  • Needs
  • Corruption

• The more cases of Ebola infection we have, the more chances there are for the virus to mutate in a particular way that adapts it well to living in humans, replicating in humans, and perhaps transmitting from human to human.

  

  David Quammen