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Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. -- Richard Stallman
I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt. -- Karl Pilkington
Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year. -- Bill Gates
Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game. -- David Allen
Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth. -- Katherine Applegate
The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey. -- Andy Warhol
I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target. -- Kenneth Williams
On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial. -- Ronald Ross
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito. -- Benito Mussolini
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. -- Dalai Lama
Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me. -- Robin Wright
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito. -- Anita Roddick
A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. -- Ambrose Bierce
I was nicknamed 'Skeeter' in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield. -- Skeet Ulrich
I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain. -- Ian Somerhalder
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
If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back. -- Henry Rollins
I like Miami in the winter: there's no humidity, no bugs, no mosquitoes. You go out and wear your jacket, and you're all good! -- Prince Royce
Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room. -- Christine Todd Whitman
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience. -- O. Henry
I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done. -- River Phoenix
We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile and grass because of pesticides and sun because of cancer and sunscreen because of vitamin-D deficiency. -- Nancy Gibbs
Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The scary thing about the future... there will be tiny cameras everywhere, and they'll be flying around like mosquitoes and drones. That will be bad. Drones are scary. You can't reason with a drone. -- Matt Groening
A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer. -- Nostradamus
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito. ... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite-what if the parasites get into the system in this manner. -- Ronald Ross
In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building. -- Seth Shostak
But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows ready to pounce when neglect, poverty, famine, or war lets down the defenses. -- Hans Zinsser
I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots... it's a beautiful thing. -- Alexis Arguello
Dragonflies kill their prey in the air and eat it on the wing. They feed on aerial plankton, which consists of any sort of small living thing that happens to be aloft - mosquitoes, midges, moths, flies, ballooning spiders. -- Richard Preston
The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite. -- Bill Gates
Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety. -- Max Lucado
Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them. -- Margaret Chan
I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel. -- Kenneth Oppel
Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus. -- Paul Bloom
This morning, you have a choice. You can lay in the dark replaying the awful events of the week, or you can turn the light on and read God's Word-His truth-which is the best thing to do when lies are swarming and painful thoughts are attacking like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes. -- Lysa TerKeurst
Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru. -- Joko Beck
Wilderness trails constitute a rare space in America marked by economic diversity. Lawyers and construction workers get bitten by the same mosquitoes and sip from the same streams; there are none of the usual signals about socioeconomic status, for most hikers are in shorts and a T-shirt and enveloped by an aroma that would make a skunk queasy. -- Nicholas Kristof
Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy. -- H. P. Lovecraft
You have mosquitoes. I have the Press. -- Prince Philip
mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations. -- Cornelia Otis Skinner
we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds. -- Rebecca Wells
If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mosquitoes here are big enough to rape a chicken. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes. -- Kobayashi Issa
In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans. -- Erma Bombeck
Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes. -- Joyce Brothers
As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water. -- James Carville
A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes. -- Ralph Klein
Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me -- Robin Wright
We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end. -- Gautama Buddha
I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes. -- Leonard Cohen
If only Africa had more mosquito nets then every year we could save millions of mosquitoes from dying needlessly of aids -- Jimmy Carr
Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes. -- James Wright
One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic. -- Edna Ferber
When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed. -- Mel Brooks
...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain. -- Nikolai Gogol
The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on up and down the biotic pyramid. -- William F. Longgood
Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat, deerflies and mosquitoes just like the men. -- Harry Anderson
....decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and the hotels were turned into third-rate apartments. -- Edward Bunker
I always befriended animals and have said many a good word for them. Even to the least-loved mosquitoes I gave many a meal, and told them to go in peace. -- John Muir
We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood. -- U.G. Krishnamurti
The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man. -- William Beebe
The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end. -- Winifred Holtby
It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)! -- Arthur Guiterman
An itchy feeling began to work its way through my body, as though a thousand mosquitoes were circulating through my blood, biting me from the inside, making me want to scream, jump, squirm. I ran. -- Lauren Oliver

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