"Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast……" — Peter Agre
"Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this."
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25 Quotes by Peter Agre
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Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by…
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My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and…
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We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
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Every cell in our body is primarily water. But the water doesn't just sit in the cell, it moves through…
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Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.
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In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the…
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It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness…
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My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt…
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Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret.
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Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife,…
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The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with…
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The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career…
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More Asia Quotes
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The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to…
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I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in…
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular…
— Earl Blumenauer
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Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy…
— Norman Borlaug
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Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies…
— David Cameron
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I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
— Fidel Castro
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie…
— Jackie Chan
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