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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

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

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Something
  • Lifetime
  • U.S.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• More important than his record as a debater is Mr. Bush's record as a president. And therein lies the true opportunity for John Kerry - notwithstanding the president's political skills, his performance in office amounts to a catastrophic failure.

  

  Al Gore
  • Important
  • True
  • Political

• The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

  

  Claude Bernard
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• As to the site of the bilateral discussions I propose, there are several possibilities. We could, for example, have our representatives meet in Moscow where contacts have already occurred. They could meet in some other country such as Burma. You may have other arrangements or sites in mind, and I would try to meet your suggestions.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Country
  • Mind
  • May

• It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Effort

• I'm not for or against video - or any medium or style, for that matter.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Style

• If I'm the MVP of the NFL, and I lose a game and go to a press conference and walk out of it, that's not the example I want to set for people.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • People
  • Game

• I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • Joy

• I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live in now, it's almost impossible for just one person to do that.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • World
  • Live
  • Leadership

• Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.

  

  Saul David
  • Facts
  • Historical
  • Narratives

• I can do what my energy, my time, to my other sort of commitment. And then also emotional, religious harmony. So in these two field, now that more or less I think the spirituality or human values in these fields, I may consider my only professional field. The political, national struggle, these are not my profession.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • May
  • Political

• I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Trade
  • Fair
  • Balanced

• There was a Burger King in Hamilton, N.Y., where Colgate is, that had three sizes: Small, Medium, and Liter. I would go in there and order a large. And they'd say, 'We don't have large; we have liters.' So they'd make us order liters of cola, which I found to be just anti-American.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • American
  • Small
  • King

• 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