Excision Quotes

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

We found that many large introns are removed by multiple
recursive splicing steps... These steps involve the
sequential excision of smaller subfragments. Our work also indicates
that most recursive splicing events leave no clues in the final mRNA.
This is why they have not been detected before now. - Javier Lopez

I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means that that body is going to have more of its own blood in its own veins. Unless the leech finds another body, it is going to go hungry. - Dave Sim