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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites. -- Samora Machel
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior. -- William Shenstone
It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites. -- Ralph Chaplin
Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites. -- Kinky Friedman
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites. -- Ben Jonson
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write. -- J. B. Priestley
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites. -- George Bernard Shaw
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others. -- Ayn Rand
Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy -- Warsan Shire
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. -- Thomas Jefferson
A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts. -- Al Goldstein
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
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
There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights. -- Thomas Sowell
Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites? -- H. L. Mencken
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
But if they're so successful, why haven't parasites taken over the world? The answer is simple: they have. We just haven't noticed. That's because successful parasites don't kill us; they become part of us, making us perform all the work to keep them alive and help them reproduce... -- Daniel Suarez
What is the difference between a man and a parasite? A man builds, a parasite asks 'Where's my share?' A man creates, a parasite says 'What will the neighbors think?' A man invents, a parasite says 'Watch out, or you might tread on the toes of God... -- Andrew Ryan
People have a good image of me. It's not these tramps who are going to tarnish my image. They should stop lying to the French people. It annoys me that people talk about 'your image'. My image is great in France. When I'm abroad, I don't even talk about it. But in France it's just these people, these parasites. -- Patrice Evra
We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites. -- Martin H. Fischer
Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant. -- Anthony Fauci
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write. -- J. B. Priestley
Remember that physical beauty is evolution's way of assuring us that the other person doesn't have too many intestinal parasites. -- Ben Bernanke
The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you. -- Mike Oldfield
I'll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool. -- Robert T. Bakker
When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites. -- Richard Dawkins
Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen. -- Henry Taylor
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
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves. -- Gore Vidal
Resentments and grudges are two of the main culprits that perpetuate cycles of self-abuse and victimhood. Stowed away inside you like parasites, they deplete you of your God-given life force and separate you from your inherent worth, your joy, and the love in your heart. -- Debbie Ford
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
Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present. -- Ellen Key
American Idol' is sometimes lumped with reality shows and it has that element - folks-next-door battling it out in a contest. But instead of fighting leeches, bugs, parasites and each other, as on CBS's 'Survivor' and other shows that imitate it, the 'American Idol' contestants, of course, sing. -- Tom Shales
Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness. -- Ludivine Sagnier
Jealousy is one of love's parasites. -- Josh Billings
Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children"¦parasites. -- Gloria Steinem
The parasites live where the great have little secret sores. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites. -- Frank Sinatra
As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water. -- James Carville
Every club has three types: fans, parasites and people who work their bollocks off, even ladies. -- Ken Bates
It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world. -- Isaac Asimov
Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society. -- William E. Simon
No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce. -- Thomas Sowell
There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims. -- Thomas Sowell
To please men and to kill parasites are the only uses tobacco-its ultimate effects are the same in both cases. -- John Harvey Kellogg
We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters. -- John Updike
Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply. -- Henry Lindlahr
Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads. -- William C. Brown
I have a real low tolerance for parasites, and you're so close to the limit that I'm already reaching for the flea powder. -- Linda Howard
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
Experts say that children are not born criminals, nor pampered parasites. They are made that way by the environment in which they live. -- J. Edgar Hoover
Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor? -- James Clavell
No compassion will be tolerated for the Jews. We deny the Pope's statement that there is but one human race. The Jews are parasites. -- Robert Ley
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
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
Alternatively, anyone who favors Intelligent Design in lieu of evolution might pause to wonder why God devoted so much of His intelligence to designing malarial parasites. -- David Quammen
Things which matter cost money, and we've got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens. -- Barbara Jordan
Societies need self sacrificing ignorant crowd;Religions need fearful followers;Systems need obedient slaves;Corporate world needs compulsive consumers,andI NEED THE COURAGE TO RISE ABOVE THESE FOUR PARASITES. -- Saurabh Sharma
Amebic dysentery is endemic throughout the world, affecting 17.6% of the population. In the US, it affects 13.6%. ...No one..really knows the extent of the parasites and the diseases they cause. -- Ruth Winter
Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks. -- William Shakespeare
There are people who are avaricious parasites. There are psychotic geniuses in control of this planet, and to them human beings are only a commodity to be bought and sold and traded. -- Alex Jones
To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not the oppressed, but they are the parasites of the oppressed. -- Sean Wilentz
We must put an end to both economic freeloading and economic exploitation in America. There must be no place for parasites who draw their sustenance from society without giving anything in return. -- George Lincoln Rockwell
But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here. -- Haruki Murakami
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
The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism, Ishkabibbleism, and Mama, which is like Dada only nicer. -- Daniel Pinkwater

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