You think of yourselves as ...

You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.
You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.
 Bonnie Bassler

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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[Bacteria] have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that ... allows bacteria to be multicellular. In the spirit of TED they're doing things together because it makes a difference.
 Bonnie Bassler