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Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.

Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.

Rene Dubos
Half, Disease, Wisps

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Drowning, Wisps

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

Kurt Vonnegut
Watches, Innocent, Wisps
Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Deadeye Dick”, Delacorte Press

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Maya Angelou
Compassion, Glory, Wisps
"At 80, Maya Angelou Reflects on a 'Glorious' Life". "Weekend Edition" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. April 6, 2008.

How do you stop longing for what you absolutely know you can't get? Which really means: How do you absolutely know you can't-and won't-get it, not ever? How do you pinch out that wisp of feeble, ruthless hope?

Leigh Newman
Mean, Longing, Wisps
Leigh Newman (2013). “Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home”, p.170, Dial Press

I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp...

L. Frank Baum
Fame, Wisps, I Have Learned
"The Making of the Wizard of Oz". Book by Aljean Harmetz, 1998.

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