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Tag Name "Germ" (58)

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Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.
Jill Lepore
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Germ warfare against the United States would escalate to war against all humanity.
Yoshijiro Umezu
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It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
Victor Hugo
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Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific name is travelitis furiosus - is carried by a germ called prosperity.
George Mikes
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The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.
Giuseppe Mazzini
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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
Irvin D. Yalom
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So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow the closer you are to the heart, the closer to the reversal. Nowhere to go but down. You reach the core and then you're blown away--
Ahdaf Soueif
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
James Madison
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The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.
Albert Einstein
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The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you.... If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you.
Annie Besant
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When you find a germ of truth, beware. Those germs can make you sick.
John R. Erickson
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Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil that there was in every human soul a possibility of repentance, of restoration a germ of good, which, however stifled and overlaid, yet was capable of recovery, of health, of freedom, of perfection.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out.
Leigh Newman
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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
Berthold Auerbach
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In a universe animated by the interaction of yin (female) and yang (male) energies, the moon was literally yin visible. Indeed, it was the very germ or source of yin, and the sun was its yang counterpart.
Li Bai
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There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost.
Bharati Mukherjee
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The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.
Malcolm Cowley
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Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.
Carl Jung
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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.
Orison Swett Marden
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The terrain is everything the germ is nothing.
Claude Bernard
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Pearl S. Buck
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The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.
David Wilkerson
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Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own intelligence, and await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist's life.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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