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Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases. -- Rudolf Leuckart
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. -- Harry S Truman
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. -- William S. Burroughs
We kind of have an ingrained, parasitic society. We kind of think it's okay to eat your neighbor. -- Mark Pellegrino
It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us. -- Bob Corker
I wouldn't describe that 'position' as 'parasitic.' I'd describe that experience as 'edifying.' I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here. -- Bruce Sterling
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. -- Charles Darwin
The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence. -- Mikhail Bakunin
It is now an article of absolute faith among Republicans that 'the government' is an entity separate from 'the American people,' which they say the same way that the old Jesuits talked about 'the mystical Body of Christ.' It is now an ironclad commandment of conservative orthodoxy that 'the government' is something parasitic and alien. -- Charlie Pierce
[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions. -- Pascal Boyer
Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling. -- Robert A. Heinlein
High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class. -- Linda McQuaig
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. -- Harry S Truman
The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them. -- Christopher Bollen
I'm necessarily parasitic in a way. I have done well as a parasite. But I'm still a parasite. -- Malcolm Gladwell
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It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent. -- Henry David Thoreau
High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.Historically the financial system has been structured in favour of moneyed interests, that is, creditors. -- Linda McQuaig
I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here. -- Bruce Sterling
Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed. -- Camille Paglia
Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a reluctant public, always by appealing to their lower instincts. -- Ann Bridge
I'm very parasitic, from my own experiences. I just go and mine my dirty laundry, you know, and go through it until I find something that's interesting enough to me to write a song about. -- Nikki Jean

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