T.K. Naliaka Quotes

#1. Huh. What a dope! Wait till Mom hears about this. He's so in trouble now. You know how crazy she gets about malaria.

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#2. Malaria-hosting mosquitoes will not wait politely during their most active evening feeding hours for people to go to bed under mosquito nets.

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#3. If no one knew them well enough to trust them, then no one was going to speak with them, then they would never get the information that would have warned them to be cautious.

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#4. If literacy was natural, the word 'illiteracy' would not exist.

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#5. Many 'experts' don't possess the imagination or vision or any of the logistical expertise required to achieve malaria eradication. Their opinions shouldn't be allowed to hold back men and women who do possess these qualities from achieving the 'impossible.

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#6. Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.

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#7. How to spell Aedes aegypti,the world's one-stop, viral-disease-transmitting mosquito: T-R-O-U-B-L-E.

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#8. Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases?

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#9. Most people around here prefer undead drivers, so I never get a chance to make any money on steady contracts.

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#10. It's not that easy living with malaria. The reality of the high annual death toll should make that very obvious.

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#11. Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.

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#12. Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.

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#13. If it is considered speaking knowledgeably about malaria by having spent a few weeks traveling into malaria endemic zones and fallen sick from being infected with it, then what is it considered by having lived in the very same malaria endemic zones for years without being infected by it?

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#14. It's a lot like the Wild West out here... just with tea shops instead of saloons. Wild West Sahara, that is.

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#15. Though they were not familiar with the expression,to paraphrase the saying, when any country in the Sahel sneezes, the rest of the region catches pneumonia, the men there would have clicked their tongues and ruefully nodded their heads that 'woolayi' this was the truth.

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#16. What an interesting contrast between us, even just in the consideration of one woman. Your complete disregard for her will ironically be your destruction, while my regard for her will be my triumph over you.

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#17. Incredibly, just one mosquito species, Aedes aegypti is responsible for the spread of four known different deadly viral diseases to human beings, yet this mosquito has been allowed to infest densely-populated urban centers.

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#18. Somehow your heart still knows me.

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#19. If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.

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#20. To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern what kind of man or woman they really are.

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#21. The wolves of the world have no pity for the confused, the scattered, the lost or the weak.

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#22. Rainy season should fill us with joy, not malaria parasites.

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#23. Any academic skill is quickly achievable if charged with clear purpose and an appeal to enthusiastic self-interest. Tarzan of the Apes only needed about twenty minutes to figure out how to read the beautiful Jane Porter's cursive writing.

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#24. Green meant water, green patches meant farmers and farmers meant agriculture. Agriculture meant food to eat and food to sell, which meant towns and transport. They had reached civilization.

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#25. Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this?

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#26. They won't turn away a father who has come to find his son.

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