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Creeps Quote by Rene Dubos

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“Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.”

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... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have…

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...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted…

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Just make sure you're gone by the time we get to Miles's. It creeps me out to see you sitting in his lap without…

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Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms…

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

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As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine.

Jonathan Falwell

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But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.

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A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages…

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I see you young and soft oh little baby Little feet, little hands, little baby One year of crying and the words creep up…

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That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils of Newton....…

James Clerk Maxwell

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Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep,…

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I'm ripe for the picking for the Scientologists - one of those creeps. Someone's got to find me. Some little weird cult can just…

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Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft…

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