"How little it takes to make life unbearable:……" — H. L. Mencken

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• We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature;… — Diane Ackerman
• Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The… — Isaac Asimov
• A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. — Ambrose Bierce
• Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species,… — H. Bentley Glass
• There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to… — William Howard Taft
• A cockroach can’t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival… — Georges St-Pierre
• You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody… — Randa Abdel-Fattah
• The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as… — Sanaa Lathan
• It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that… — Michael O'Donoghue
• I’m not a bloody cockroach. What’s all this about? What are you trying to find out? — Amanda Hocking
• As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success. — Mason Cooley
• I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of… — Harry Markopolos

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