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Surveying the way viruses have been discovered in the past, I came to the conclusion that I could use my technology that I developed as a graduate student - DNA microarray technology - to create a chip that would simultaneously screen for all viruses ever discovered, and furthermore have the built-in capability of discovering new viruses.

Quotes by Joseph DeRisi

The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is a product of times when things appeared manageable. The same goes for the criticism of those doctrines, though as a voice from the past, this criticism proved prophetic.

Quotes by Joseph Brodsky

I think that people have short memories, and I think that they believe that our forbearers in the past were these Founding Fathers who were ideal and who were - would never have stooped to dirty tricks.

Quotes by Joseph Cummins

Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.

Quotes by Josefina Vazquez Mota

Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past.

Quotes by Jose Rodriguez

People are really surprised by the fact that I keep in touch with the latest trends rather than retreating to the distant past.

Quotes by Jose Feliciano

Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.

Quotes by Jose Andres

Our work at the OECD shows that migration, if well managed, can spur growth and innovation. Unfortunately, in the past, migration has not always been well managed: migrants have been concentrated in ghetto-like conditions, with few public services or employment prospects.

Quotes by Jose Angel Gurria

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

I can't stay stuck in the past.

Quotes by Jorge Masvidal

I don't like to look too far back into the past.

Quotes by Jordan Henderson

Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.

Quotes by Jonathan Zittrain

Northern Ireland still suffers from its past, and it will take generations to escape sectarianism and for violence to end totally. Nonetheless, it is in a different place now than during the Troubles, and it will not go back to the old days.

Quotes by Jonathan Powell

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

Quotes by Jonathan Sacks

The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.

Quotes by Jonathan Lethem

It is difficult to master the skill of scoring runs from a 90mph delivery that is dug into your armpit or is fizzing past your nose.

Quotes by Jonathan Agnew

For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.

Quotes by Jonathan Ames

I look forward to working with President Trump. I've worked with him many times in the past, but we disagree.

Quotes by Jon Tester

I was this guy who'd been racing around down there, on that field in 1999, running straight over people, scoring tries, winning games, having fun. And I ended up so sick I couldn't even run past a little baby.

Quotes by Jonah Lomu

That's the fun of going to a high school reunion: it's seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past.

Quotes by Jon Hurwitz

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

Quotes by Jon Bon Jovi

At least the rap metal stuff is good, but it's not really my bag. I've been listening to the radio since we've been touring the past month, because we don't get it most of the time.

Quotes by Jon Crosby

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

Quotes by Joichi Ito

Some of the country stuff in the past has been so polished - if you were a guy with a nice pair of jeans, a big belt buckle and nice hat, you were country.

Quotes by Johnny Van Zant

Car ownership as we know it will change. The promise of car ownership of the past, the freedom of open roads... the reality has been more of a burden.

Quotes by John Zimmer

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Quotes by Johnny Cash

It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.

Quotes by John Walters

We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years.

Quotes by John Walters

The past has to inform the present.

Quotes by John Turturro

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

Quotes by John Updike

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

Quotes by John Thorn

More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.

Quotes by John Thorn

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.

Quotes by John Thorn

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.

Quotes by John Sununu

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

Quotes by John Sladek

Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.

Quotes by John Slattery

Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received.

Quotes by John Sheffield

The greatest advancements in living standards over the past century have been coincident with affordable energy.

Quotes by John S. Watson

Our fans should know that the Phillies organization is committed to restoring the Phillies to its recent dominant past. We will approach the 2017 season and the years to follow with even greater intensity and determination, knowing our fans are eager to bring a championship back to Philadelphia. We intend to accomplish that goal.

Quotes by John S. Middleton

I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research.

Quotes by John Ratzenberger

I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.

Quotes by John Pople

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

Quotes by John Portman

I see this fella built like a barn door... and there's all these fox hunters, who didn't like me, screaming and shouting and as I walked past him I looked at him and he hit me with something.

Quotes by John Prescott

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

Quotes by John Phillips Marquand

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Quotes by John Osborne

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

Quotes by John Paul Stevens

I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations.

Quotes by John O. Brennan

One of my resolutions is to quit smoking. I've tried for the past two years, but this year I am going to stick with it.

Quotes by John Oldham

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

John Milton

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

Quotes by John Maynard Keynes

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Quotes by John Lyly

Our journey in going beyond our home planet is a human endeavor, and in the greatest tradition of exploration, past, present, and future spacefarers will continue to be enduring catalysts for inspiration in our quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe.

Quotes by John M. Grunsfeld

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

Quotes by John Leonard

In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.

Quotes by John Lewis

In Britain, the theatre has traditionally been where the public goes to think about its past and debate its future. The formation of the National Theatre, at the Old Vic, near the South Bank, in 1963, institutionalized the symbolic importance of drama by giving it both a building and state funding.

Quotes by John Lahr

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

Quotes by John Jay Chapman

The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you have to pull off and swallow one of your heart pills. It's that the greenness doesn't mean what it seems. It doesn't encode a pastoral past, much less a timeless vale where wee folk trip the demesne.

Quotes by John Jeremiah Sullivan

The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.

Quotes by John Joly

I write about the human condition, as a South African. I sometimes see South Africa with the spectacles of the past and there will then be a political content in my writing.

Quotes by John Kani

Yes, we have the judiciary, the Constitution, we're fighting racism on a daily basis, but these are all state efforts and are not the efforts of the individual. The individual has to commit to change, the individual has to look at the past and take accountability of the past; for the wound to heal we have to dress it together.

Quotes by John Kani

And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers.

Quotes by John Hutton

My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.

Quotes by John Hutton

Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.

Quotes by John Hickenlooper

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.

Quotes by John Hope Franklin

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Quotes by John F. Kennedy

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Quotes by John F. Kennedy

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

Quotes by John F. Kennedy

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Quotes by John F. Kennedy

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

Quotes by John F. Kennedy

In terms of the past, I think we've all learned from the past. I think that's great wisdom.

Quotes by John Dorsey

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future.

Quotes by John Desmond Bernal

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Quotes by John Dalberg-Acton

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

Quotes by John Dalberg-Acton

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.

Quotes by John Dalberg-Acton

To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.

Quotes by John Darnielle

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

Quotes by John Corigliano

Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the world's most influential living moral philosophers. He has written 30 books on ethics and held a variety of professorial chairs over the past four decades in North America.

Quotes by John Cornwell

I've been an assistant to a folklorist and a teacher. There may or may not have been some sandwich-making at a certain sub chain in my past as well.

Quotes by John Corey Whaley

I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.

Quotes by John C. Stennis

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

Quotes by John Cage

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

Quotes by John Cale

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

Quotes by John Calvin

As you get older, you treasure the beautiful things of the past but also see things more clearly.

Quotes by John Cameron Mitchell

I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty.

Quotes by John Burdett

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

Quotes by John Burns

By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line.

Quotes by John Byng

I would rather be an independent senator, governed by my own views, going for the good of the country, uncontrolled by any thing which mortal man can bring to bear upon me, than to be president of the United States, put there as presidents of the United States have been for many years past.

Quotes by John C. Calhoun

Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away.

Quotes by John Boyne

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Quotes by John Buchan

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Quotes by John Berger

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

Quotes by John Banville

Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it was just, ugh, another boring bloody day. But, to look back on, it's a day full of miracles and light and extraordinary events. Why is this? What process do we apply to the past, to give it this vividness? I don't know.

Quotes by John Banville

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

Quotes by John Barton

I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.

Quotes by John Bercow

Give the composer time to experiment, time to try out ideas. Also, the time to fail. When the composer has very little time, the temptation is to reach for stock ideas - ideas they know will work and have worked in the past.

Quotes by Johann Johannsson

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

Quotes by Johan Huizinga

The darkest aspects of imperialism are still very much prevalent in many cultures around the world; hundreds of years later, and we have a collective responsibility to encounter the deeds of our past.

Quotes by Johan Renck

Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few hunters and gatherers to become more sedentary agriculture-based civilizations, which then moved us to the current populated modern era.

Quotes by Johan Rockstrom

After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth had been very painful. You try to put all that in the past and become a person of the world. I think that's the right thing to do. But it's not right to leave out who you really are. That's a tragedy.

Quotes by Joel Grey

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.

Quotes by Joe Wright

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Quotes by Joel A. Barker

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