Immune Quotes - Page 8

• A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that all versions of the view must be committed to some particularly deplorable conclusion. Philosophers are not immune to this way of arguing.

  Dale Jamieson

  Rhetorical Strategies, Light, Views

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree to which the ethos of containment and punishment now creeps into spheres of everyday life that were largely immune in the past from this type of state violence. This is not merely barbarism parading as reform - it is also a blatant indicator of the degree to which sadism and the infatuation with violence have become normalized in a society that seems to take delight in dehumanizing itself.

  Henry Giroux

  School, Past, Ethos

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism that creates the foundation for sapping democracy of any political substance and moral vitality. The predominance of the disimagination machine in American society, along with its machinery of social death and historical amnesia, seeps into in all aspects of life, suggesting that young people and others marginalized by class, race and ethnicity have been abandoned.

  Henry Giroux

  Race, Ethnicity, Class

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The challenge is that if you stimulate your immune system, it might get over-stimulated. And it might actually start causing harm to normal cells in your body. So we have to work a balance between attacking the cancer and not attacking yourself.

  Tyler Jacks

  Cancer, Cells, Challenges

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• We're very enthused about the idea that in the third trimester we actually give the mother a vaccine and her antibodies, the protective things that the immune system makes, actually pass through to the baby, both when the baby is born, and through the mother's milk. Because the baby's immune system is actually not very strong for that first few months, using the mother's immune system to do this - it's a very exciting idea and something that we're investing heavily in.

  Bill Gates

  Mother, Baby, Strong

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• Vaccines are a miracle; they're fantastic. Anything that makes people hesitate to give their children these vaccines according to the recommended schedule creates risk. Risk for the children who don't get vaccinated and risk for children, some of whom don't have an immune system, so they're benefiting from the fact that the community protection means the disease doesn't get to them.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Mean, Vaccines

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• [Melinda Gates] is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend a few hours, where I'm going through how amazing it is and interesting, and how that affects our creating new products, so I've always had a partner.

  Bill Gates

  Fun, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• If we could do something that enhances the body's immune system here on Earth, it would be a tremendous step forward in the fight against disease and cancer and other things.

  John Glenn

  Cancer, Fighting, Steps

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

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• We got a wonderful present from Stalin and Hitler that they never meant to give us. We were immune for 60 years or so to aggression, racism and militarism. They made us partly immune to these things. Now it appears this Stalin-Hitler present has reached its expiration date. We were spoiled by this. So maybe we are just emerging out of a relatively golden age.

  Amos Oz

  Years, Racism, Giving

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think no country is going to be immune from the Arab awakening because the Arab awakening is driven by deep human longing for dignity, for justice and for freedom. I think that applies to young people in Saudi Arabia as much as to young people in Egypt, Tunisia, or Yemen, or Libya, or Syria. If I were in Saudi Arabia, I would be getting ahead of this and looking for ways to appreciate those aspirations and align my country with them.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Thinking, Egypt

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It’s conscious.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Cells, Facts

  "You Are Not Your Brain: Interview With Alva Noe, Ph.D". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2010.

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• Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

  Brett Favre

  Names, People, Tragedy

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview With Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

  Damon Lindelof

  Criticism, Okay, Comfortable

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• A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Views, People, Alternatives

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• Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.

  Ian Mcewan

  Thinking, Race, Needs

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• Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.

  Helen Fisher

  Men, Different, Scientist

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• We can boost our immune systems by strengthening our social networks and decreasing stress.

  Jane McGonigal

  Stress, Social Network, Boost

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• My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless... I'm not going to have a happy ending.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Heart, Erratic, Useless

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• September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took down the maps in the classroom, And when they were safely furled, We told the young what they wanted to hear, That they were immune from a menacing world. But history isn't a folded-up map, Or an unread textbook tome; Now we know history's a fireman's child Waiting at home alone.

  Richard Peck

  Children, Home, Waiting

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• A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they like, but they cannot vanish what has been written in the past, though they try often enough...People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Religion, Atheism

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  And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

  David Bowie

  Children, Trying, World

  Song: Changes, Album: Hunky Dory, 1971

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• We can be exposed to HIV many times without being chronically infected. Our immune system will get rid of the virus within a few weeks, if you have a good immune system.

  Luc Montagnier

  Viruses, Hiv, Week

  Interview with Kit Melamed, maisonneuve.org. 2004.

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• If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who directed the traffic flow and determined the priorities: which family member was cleared for takeoff or landing. Even my father was not immune to Mom's scheduling, though he was given more leeway than the rest of us.

  Will Schwalbe

  Mom, Father, Priorities

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.13, Vintage

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• Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses.

  Paul Stamets

  Impact, Volcanoes, Pigs

  "Agarikon: Ancient Mushroom for Modern Medicine" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2012.

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