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Quotes About Immunity

For some reason, I never get sick. I don't know why, but I just don't. I have never missed a day of work or practice.
~ Todd Reirden
If I get a cold, it lasts for a month.
~ Delta Goodrem
I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that's a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.
~ Toni Morrison
The Europeans unwittingly brought a biological weapon with them that gave the invaders a brutal advantage over their opponents. With no immunity whatsoever to smallpox, Native Americans died in droves when they were exposed to the virus. In Central America, over 90 percent of the native population is believed to have died of smallpox in the decades following the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores in the early 1500s.
~ Carl Zimmer
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
~ Sir William Blackstone
With the combination of spending a fair amount of time on planes, having twins that go to elementary school, and generally living a lifestyle that is pretty high-stress, I have been known to run myself down quite easily, so I am pretty much a petri dish for germs, colds, and flus.
~ Amanda de Cadenet
In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.
~ Michael Behe
You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
If he can't reach you he can't hit youIf he can't hit you he can't hurt you
~ Arun D. Ellis
the more turbulent the emotions expressed on paper, the greater the improvement in their immune function.
~ Tara Bennett-Goleman
Blue Gamma has done what it can to minimize abuses; all the Neuroblast digients are equipped with pain circuit breakers, which render them immune to torture and thus unappealing to sadists. Unfortunately, there's no way to protect the digients from things like simple neglect.
~ Ted Chiang
One of the chief factors in progress is the destruction of special privilege. The essence of any struggle for healthy liberty has always been, and must always be, to take from some one man or class of men the right to enjoy power, or wealth, or position, or immunity, which has not been earned by service to his or their fellows.
~ TEDDY ROOSEVELT
If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
~ Gautama Buddha
in Australia, India, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, where 45 percent of all civilian deaths were people aged fifteen to thirty-five.97 Death was not caused by the influenza virus itself so much as by the body's immunological reaction to the virus. Perversely, this meant that individuals with the strongest immune systems were more likely to die than those with weaker immune systems.
~ Niall Ferguson
Cholera is even more severe among populations who are immunologically naive.
~ Christy Turlington
I've experienced wrong diagnoses and been given antibiotics for things that could be cured naturally. We may not think much of it, but it destroys our immunity.
~ Nargis Fakhri
In 'Amalur,' each person believes he has an immutable destiny, one that defines how, and how long, he will live. Until you come along. But of course, your character is the anomaly, somebody who can change both his own fate and the destinies of the people he interacts with. So, naturally, it's up to you to save the world.
~ Jason Schreier
Since I've had to endure your ugliness my entire life, I'm immune to whatever venom you choose to spew. However, and you'd better hear me, Eloisa, I will not tolerate you doing the same thing to my woman. She's my choice. She's always going to be my choice.
~ Christine Feehan
Saul Bellow escribió una vez que, en una época de locura, creerse inmunes a la locura es una forma de locura.
~ Umberto Eco
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees
~ Victor Hugo
Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Now, there are important rules in Fairyland, rules from which I shall one day be exempt, when my papers have been processed at last and I am possessed of the golden ring of diplomatic immunity.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The results were unequivocal. Both in London and in the United States, people who had survived the 1918 flu had antibodies that completely blocked Shope's swine flu virus. People who were born after 1918 did not have those antibodies.
~ Gina Kolata
No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country's dissidents and marginalized who bear the brunt of the surveillance, leading those who support the government or are merely apathetic to mistakenly believe they are immune.
~ Glenn Greenwald