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“Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?”
― Love in the Ruins
― Love in the Ruins
“Some ancient eukaryote swallowed a photosynthesizing bacteria and became a sunlight gathering alga. Millions of years later one of these algae was devoured by a second eukaryote. This new host gutted the alga, casting away its nucleus and its mitochondria, keeping only the chloroplast. That thief of a thief was the ancestor or Plasmodium and Toxoplasma. And this Russian-doll sequence of events explains why you can cure malaria with an antibiotic that kills bacteria: because Plasmodium has a former bacterium inside it doing some vital business.”
― Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
― Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
“The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.”
― The Uses of Literature
― The Uses of Literature
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