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"Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties."
"We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns."
"There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host."
"Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease."
"The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself."
"Computer viruses are alive."
"Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction."
"People called 28 Days and 28 Weeks zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus; they're not dead."
"When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are."
"To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money."
