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• Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

  Jan Morris

  Hands, Oysters, Cities

  Jan Morris (2008). “Venice”, p.167, Faber & Faber

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• All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.

  Ben Jonson

  Wise, World, Littles

  Ben Jonson (1999). “Five Plays”, p.275, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

  Khalil Gibran

  Country, Oasis, Firsts

  "The New Frontier" (1925)

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• When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

  Anthony Trollope

  Strong, Wall, Ivy

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Barchester Towers: Trollope's Works”, p.425, 谷月社

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• Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Cities, Tree, Alive

  D. H. Lawrence, Brian Finney (1983). “St Mawr and Other Stories”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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• The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Brain, Body, May

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.19, Cosimo Classics

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• Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil could not exist. Men sometimes forget this, and say, there is so much evil in the world that there cannot be a God. They are forgetting that, if there were no God, they would have no way of distinguishing evil from goodness. The very concept of evil admits and recognizes a Standard, a Whole, a Rule, an Order. Nobody would say that his automobile was out of order if he did not have a conception of how an automobile ought to run.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Running, Men, Order

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• After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its calculations will find written on a sheet of paper in letters of fire that energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. The new kings of the world will live tranquilly for a long time, confining themselves to devouring each other and being parasites among each other on a cottage industry scale.

  Primo Levi

  Love, Kings, Science

  "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" by Carl C. Gaither, Springer Science & Business Media, (p. 101), January 5, 2012.

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• Sexual reproduction exists solely as a means to defeat parasites. By mixing male and female genes, sex produces offspring not exactly like either the male or female - making each generation different from the last, and presenting a moving target to intruders intent on compromising this system. ... Even with this variation, parasites continue to pose a threat... and parasitism evolves and moves through any system - not just living things. The less variation there is in a system, the more readily parasites will evolve to infest it.

  Daniel Suarez

  Sex, Moving, Mean

  Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.425, Penguin

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• Every club has three types: fans, parasites and people who work their bollocks off, even ladies.

  Ken Bates

  People, Fans, Three

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• As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe in fishermen, I believe in fish. I do not believe in miners, I believe in the rocks beneath my feet. I do not believe in pie in the sky spirituality, I believe in rainbows, rivers, mountains, and moss. I do not believe in environmentalists, I believe in the environment. I am a proud traitor to my species in alliance with my mother the Earth in opposition to those who would destroy her, those parasites who believe the Earth is here to serve human interests.

  Paul Watson

  Mother, Believe, Sky

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• 'You didn't build that' will be Obama's political epitaph: With these remarks, Obama has come out of the closet as a most odious collectivist, who believes religiously that government predation is a condition for production. Or, put simply, that the parasite created the host.

  Ilana Mercer

  Believe, Government, Political

  "'You Didn't Build That': Obama's Political Epitaph". www.wnd.com. July 27, 2012.

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• I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

  Ronald Ross

  Failure, Science, Malaria

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• To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare Parasites, the Power Elite, the female sex, the vegetarians, or the Communist Party. To the extent that you need a scapegoat, you simply have not got your brain programmed to work as an efficient problem-solving machine.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Sex, Party, Brain

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• All over East Africa-indeed, all over Africa-it is normal for people to walk a kilometer or two or six for water. In more arid areas, people walk even greater distances, and sometimes all they find at the end is a pond slimy with overuse. More than 90 percent of Africans still dig for their water, and waterborne diseases such as typhoid, dysentery, bilharzia, and cholera are common. The bodies of many Africans are a stew of parasites. In some areas the wells are so far below the earth's surface that chains of people are required to pass up the water.

  Marq de Villiers

  Distance, Two, People

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• To please men and to kill parasites are the only uses tobacco-its ultimate effects are the same in both cases.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Death, Science, Men

  John Harvey Kellogg (1922). “Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,”

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• Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society.

  William E. Simon

  Healthy, Ethical, Achiever

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• By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Buddhism, Self, Long

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• Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights.
  All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites.
  Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave?
  Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?

  Joe Hill

  Struggle, Taken, Ambition

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• Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

  C. S. Lewis

  Evil, Catholic, Way

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.50, HarperCollins UK

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• The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that whatever you’re doing could be done more beautifully, more powerfully, more stirringly, more disturbingly, more deeply.

  Brian Morton

  Art, Brain, Viruses

  Brian Morton (2004). “A Window Across the River”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.

  John Updike

  Mother, Body, Letters

  JOHN UPDIKE (1965). “ASSORTED PROSE”

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• A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them--as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself--into the grave, and is forgotten.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Needs, Shells

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• Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more powerful and sophisticated than our own and that blindness, often caused by microscopic parasites that are themselves miracles of ingenuity, is one of the oldest and most tragic disorders known to man. And why award the superior eye (or in the case of cat or bat, also the ear) to the inferior species.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Powerful, Cat, Eye

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.84, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'm necessarily parasitic in a way. I have done well as a parasite. But I'm still a parasite.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Done, Way, Wells

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