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«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.»
Author: Charles Darwin (Author, Naturalist) | About: Belief, God | Keywords: beneficent, caterpillars, designedly, feeding, intention, omnipotent, parasitic, persuade, The Express, wasp, wasps
«Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.»
Author: Harry S Truman (President) | About: Art | Keywords: parasitic
«The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit / not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviate from their graves.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: antiquary, chiefly, dead tree, exuviate, fossil, fossils, Graves, heave, parasitic, precede, strata, stratum, throe, throes, vegetable
«We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard | Keywords: coziness, domesticity, glow, historic, parade, parasitic, slyly, snug, withdrawn
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