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Eighty percent of cancers, known as carcinomas, arise in epithelial cells—that is, the cells that make up the skin and the linings of organs. Breast cancers, for instance, don't just grow randomly within the breast, but normally begin in the milk ducts. Epithelial cells are assumed to be particularly susceptible to cancers because they divide rapidly and often.
~ Bill Bryson
Yes, it seems we've got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to this same kind of mistake over and over again. It's really uncanny how we build these beautiful multicultural edifices and then allow this switch to be flipped and everybody goes, 'Oh, the other, get them out of here.'
~ Geraldine Brooks
My greatest hope is that we learn how trauma induces neurodegeneration in susceptible individuals.
~ Ann McKee
Forests in Colorado and the West that once had 50-100 trees per acre are now dangerously overcrowded with 500-1,000 trees per acre. Our forests are overgrown and poorly managed, making them more susceptible to large wildfires, disease, and bark beetle attacks.
~ Lauren Boebert
I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.
~ Adam Hochschild
Even the littlest minds, sunk in petty pride of self, are susceptible to chords struck on the cosmic scale.
~ Michael Shea
Humans are social animals, highly susceptible to emotional contagion. Training, logic, and intelligence are often no match for the power of groupthink.
~ Bruce D. Perry
Her supreme indifference added fuel to Manston's ardour - it completely disarmed his pride. The invulnerable Nobody seemed greater to him than a susceptible Princess.
~ Thomas Hardy
History has informed us that bodies of men, as well as individuals, are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The child of civilization, remote from birth from wild nature and all her ways, is more susceptible to her grandeur than is her untutored son who has looked at her and lived close to her from childhood up, on terms of prosaic familiarity. The
~ Thomas Mann
If, in doing this I should open the door to so-called "suggestion", I see no occasion for regret; it is well known that we are susceptible only to those suggestions with which we are already secretly in accord.
~ C.G. Jung
Nothing is further from the truth. A path once bent is always susceptible to new changes.
~ Timothy Zahn
You are very susceptible to price shoppers and have ZERO brand loyalty You'll attract clients who care more about price than quality
~ Carlos Castillo
Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.
~ Alvin Adams
When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.
~ Howard Zinn
I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.
~ Oscar Wilde
The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken.
~ Roald Amundsen
In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama.
~ Okakura Kakuzo
los regímenes constitucionales basados en el imperio de la ley son a su vez más susceptibles de experimentar revoluciones financieras que alienten tanto la inversión extranjera como la formación interna de capital. Una
~ Niall Ferguson
the fate of dictators to have to listen to flattery and to grow more susceptible to it. There are few who dare to say No in their presence, and it becomes less and less tolerable to them to hear that presumptuous word.
~ Upton Sinclair
He understood that it is the fate of dictators to have to listen to flattery and to grow more susceptible to it. There are few who dare to say No in their presence, and it becomes less and less tolerable to them to hear that presumptuous word.
~ Upton Sinclair
Papilio stomachus: fragile creatures, vulnerable to frost and betrayal.
~ Laini Taylor
The errors caused by temperament are not to be corrected, because our temperament is perfectly independent of our strength: it is not the case with our character. Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved. I
~ Giacomo Casanova
The people who are most susceptible to hypnosis - the rugger bugger types - were also the ones who intimidated me most at school, so on an unconscious level I suppose I'm turning the tables on them.
~ Derren Brown