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Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed. -- Raymond Loewy
Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host. -- Bernard Beckett
Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed. -- Chris Smith
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
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
We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash. -- Daniel Suarez
Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor. -- Paul Stamets
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life. -- William Banting
For the first time, we have the genetic sequences of all three of the players in the global malaria debacle: the parasite, the anopheles mosquito and the human. It's a very important milestone. -- Anthony Fauci
The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world. -- Bill Gates
It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time. -- Boris Johnson
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
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
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
When I came to University of California, San Francisco to work on infectious disease, I looked around to different options, and malaria was particularly interesting and fascinating to me. It's amazing that after 100 years of study of this little parasite, we've not been able to effectively control it. -- Joseph DeRisi
Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!' -- Adam Davidson
Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow. -- Felix Dennis
When a parasite moves to a new habitat, it can find new hosts through a process called the trans-species jump. Often, the new host has no resistance; it and the parasite haven't had time to adjust to each other through natural selection (it is frequently not in the best interest of a parasite to kill its host quickly). -- Richard Preston
That parasite: the past. -- Natalie Clifford Barney
I am a parasite off beauty. -- Peter Beard
You're a parasite for sore eyes. -- Gregory Ratoff
Unemployed and dependent - is not as parasite. -- Jason Read
Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none. -- Andrew Carnegie
What hostile parasite is tunneling through her sphincter? (Zarina) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host. -- Kevin D. Williamson
World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue -- George F. Kennan
What is the difference between a parasite and a liberal? The spelling! -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite. -- Richard Preston
A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society. -- Charles Hamilton Houston
The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite. -- L. E. J. Brouwer
Government is basically a parasite, and if the host doesn't grow, then government suffers. -- Jeb Bush
Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love. -- Henri Matisse
The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men. -- Ayn Rand
The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite. -- Napoleon Hill
I'm necessarily parasitic in a way. I have done well as a parasite. But I'm still a parasite. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Getting out and staying out of debt is key. debt is the biggest barrier, a parasite to wealth. -- Ann Wilson
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Will our Philosophy to later Life Seem but a crudeness of the planet's youth, Our Wisdom but a parasite of Truth? -- Julian Huxley
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
The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves. -- Ayn Rand
In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor. -- W. H. Auden
The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
If I come back as an animal in my next lifetime, I hope it's some type of parasite, because this is the part where I take it EASY! -- Jack Handey
We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash. -- Daniel Suarez
Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us. -- Mark Fisher
Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up and start minding their own business. -- Harry Browne
All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness. -- Fulton J. Sheen
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
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
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

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