"But if they're so successful, why haven't parasites……" — Daniel Suarez
"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..."
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19 Quotes by Daniel Suarez
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I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.
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Sexual reproduction exists solely as a means to defeat parasites. By mixing male and female genes, sex produces offspring not…
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Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.
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Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.
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Anything before you’re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world’s going to hell.
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For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how…
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Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.
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In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a…
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When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from…
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At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined…
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In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent…
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Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza iwth roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx…
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