There are no comparative studies on avian flu. We're not saying drugs shouldn't be given. We just don't know. The jury is out.


Dr. Tom Jefferson

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We believe, for just a regular flu season without the avian flu, yes, we have enough.
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The epidemic of avian flu can now spread on a global scale.
BERNARD VALLAT
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The bottom line is, when you look at the well-done scientific studies, there were very few showing t...
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There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists.
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MIKE LEAVITT
This is a case of mercy, not murder. No jury will ever convict Dr. Kevorkian.
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JIM MURPHY
no one knows why we are put on this earth i dont think any of them are true i dont even know why we ...
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Even if you control avian flu, the next one is coming.
DR SHIGERU OMI
Avian flu should not be considered a human health issue, but a human- and animal-health issue.
DAVID HARCHARIK
I dont know what was wrong with us. Either we were nervous or were just not that good.
ALEX HERNANDEZ
We never even thought of the prospect of resurrecting it until avian flu came along.
CHARLES BUGG
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If you don 't have explanation of what's happening around the world... I think somebody else knows p...
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We are not saying we are confident these drugs will not cause liver toxicity,
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There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists.
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You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
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IAN WILLIAMSON
We don't do the avian flu. DMORT is responsible for [processing] the remains only ... they don't ide...
BARBARA ELLIS
Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER
Wherever you are, be all there.
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[The finding that Spanish flu came straight from birds has raised concerns among scientists. Previou...
RONALD ATLAS
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Sentiment is somewhat ingrained now regarding bird flu, but there is not a sea change taking place. ...
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Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi.
ENOCK MAREGESI
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We know from testing that it's not influenza, not SARS, not avian influenza.
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You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
DAVID LEVITHAN
When Secretary (Tom) Ridge was here, everyone was saying we were rated triple-A.
LENNY KLOMPUS
Dr. Livingston's studies helped us identify the problems.
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JON STEWART
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The jury was confused and did not know what they were doing.
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There is improvement, but we still can't know the extent of the cognitive improvement. There are sti...
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Panic is not justified. Avian influenza in Europe continues to be an animal problem confined to wild...
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Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up an...
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There are initiatives in place to deter counterfeiters and those who sell fraudulent or phony produc...
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There are initiatives in place to deter counterfeiters and those who sell fraudulent or phony produc...
ANDREW VON ESCHENBACH
While there is a delay in obtaining flu vaccine, we can be thankful that there has also been a delay...
GREGORY POLAND
We are saying there can be no Freedom Day celebrations while there are people who are oppressed.
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The jury is still out on whether humans are causing climate change.
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IAN PAISLEY
[Israel estimates that there are 50 to 75 dealerships, including some of the largest in the state, t...
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SILVERCHAIR
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There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all...
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SHEHU BAWA
If an outbreak of avian influenza were to be proven, there would be a lot of support needed.
MARIA ZAMPAGLIONE
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WENDY WRIGHT
We contacted the state police just so there were no issues saying that we overstepped our boundaries...
JEFFREY HEWETT
a reasonable jury did find in favor of Dr. Parker.
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DICK DEGUERIN
Are you on drugs?”
“No.”
“Maybe you should be.…
RAINBOW ROWELL
Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba...
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When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear p...
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And if avian flu develops into a pandemic human strain - as many experts fear it may - the vaccine m...
ANDREA GAMBOTTO
There is no bird flu in commercial stocks.
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But there is no voting system and the winner will be decided by the jury.
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All the studies came back saying there was a market for development.
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There are possibilities for abuse -- lots of big ones. This is not a finely honed instrument or a tw...
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As to the decision, the verdict of the jury could not be more clear. The jury has said these men are...
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The earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil s...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, ...
JEFFERSON BETHKE
There exists indeed an opposition to it [building of UVA, Jefferson's secular college] by the...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our instit...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from th...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to p...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
If you want something you've never had
You must be willing to do something you've never done.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good gener...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers w...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you w...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbeliev...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work Plato's R...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by renderi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nati...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
THOMAS JEFFERSON