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• Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Small Pleasures, Emergencies, Ruins

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• Some of the men and women who will not say in so many words the thing which is not, will deliberately give a false impression. They are not the servants of truth; they are the parasites of truth.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Truth, Men, Giving

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Government is basically a parasite, and if the host doesn't grow, then government suffers.

  Jeb Bush

  Government, Suffering, Host

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• Unemployed and dependent - is not as parasite.

  Jason Read

  Unemployed, Dependent

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• Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host.

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Political, Detroit, Host

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• ...one exploiting sect, one people of leeches, one single devouring parasite closely and intimately bound together not only across national boundaries, but also across all divergences of political opinion ... [Jews have] that mercantile passion which constitutes one of the principle traits of their national character

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Character, Passion, Political Opinions

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• Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation.

  Daniel Suarez

  Simple, Perfect, Enemy

  Daniel Suarez (2010). “Daemon”, p.270, Hachette UK

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• Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.

  James Alan Gardner

  Glasses, Toxic, Half

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• Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.

  Yann Martel

  Animal, Forever, Social Hierarchy

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.17, Vintage Canada

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• The intricate and different life cycles of both male and female root-heads, and the great behavioral sophistication shown by the female in reconfiguring a host crab as a support system, all underscore the myopia of our conventional wisdom in regarding rhizocephalans as degenerate parasites because the adult anatomy of internal roots and external sac seem so simple.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Simple, Roots, Support Systems

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms”, p.371, Harvard University Press

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• The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Civilization, Failing, Cynicism

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love.

  Henri Matisse

  Hatred

  Henri Matisse (1977). “Henri Matisse Paper Cut-outs: National Gallery of Art Color Slide Program”

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• So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves. Such a one has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Selfish, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.327

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• The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Political, Politics

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.875, Penguin

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• Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

  Bill Gates

  Life, Success, Education

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• The word relationship best refers to the connection between parasite and host, or shark and remora. It's a biological term. I'd rather be a jerk than a scientist when it comes to love.

  Ian Shoales

  Love, Sharks, Connections

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• A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.

  Jack Valenti

  Thinking, Television, Unfair

  Jack Valenti's comments on the Cable television industry in testimony to Congress (June 1974), as quoted in "What Jack Valenti Did for Hollywood" by Richard Corliss, content.time.com. April 27, 2007.

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• Come on, Forney.' Novalee, it's a parasite.' But it's a tradition.' It's a parasite! And you expect people yo stand under it and kiss?' Yes! it's what people do with mistletoe.

  Billie Letts

  Kissing, People, Tradition

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• Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat. The whole world becomes topsy-survy if you impose moralities that were evolved within human society on what a blowfly or what a parasite does... there are lots of emotions you can deduce from an animal's behaviour that are correct, but when you start saying it's feeling guilty or thinking or a loved one or mourning, you must be very careful of those feelings.

  David Attenborough

  Thinking, Animal, Mourning

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• Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian literature. Most of what little there is consists of Randite rantings against parasites, barely distinguishable from the invective inflicted on dissidents by the Soviet press.

  Bob Black

  Law, Issues, Unemployment

  "The Abolition of Work and Other Essays". Book by Bob Black, 1986.

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• That parasite: the past.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Past

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.129, New Victoria Publishers

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• FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the poison that destroys critical thinking, undermines evidence, and leads people into lives dedicated to absurdity. It’s a parasite regarded as a virtue. I speak as a representative of the scientific faction of atheism: it’s one thing we simply cannot compromise on. Faith is wrong.

  PZ Myers

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• We are the necessary element since we expend nothing. Management can create its own capital -- the profits. Its business would grow and profits increase. Labor would prosper as well, while the price of the product would remain constant, the prosperity of industry, labor and management would continually increase. We Jews glory in the fact that the stupid goy have never realized that we are the parasites consuming an increasing portion of production while the producers are continually receiving less and less.

  Harold Wallace Rosenthal

  Stupid, Facts, Receiving

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• Thus, the capital owner is not a parasite or a rentier but a worker - a capital worker. A distinction between labor work and capital work suggests the lines along which we could develop economic institutions capable of dealing with increasingly capital-intensive production, as our present institutions cannot.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Lines, Politics

  Louis O. Kelso, Patricia Hetter Kelso (1986). “Democracy and Economic Power: Extending the ESOP Revolution through Binary Economics”, p.16, BookBaby

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• We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every time it comes to mind. It travels with us, sleeps with us, hovers over us while we make love, and broods over us while we die. Our hate does not even have the decency to die when those we hate die-for it is a parasite sucking OUR blood, not theirs. There is only one remedy for it. [forgiveness]

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Hate

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