Top 33 Naliaka Quotes
#1. In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are - about luck and identity and how the idea struck them.
Eleanor Catton
#2. What a society honors will be cultivated.
Aristotle.
#3. 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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#5. If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.
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#6. 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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#7. The wolves of the world have no pity for the confused, the scattered, the lost or the weak.
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#8. Be as humble as Moses, as patient as Job, and as virtuous as Daniel.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#9. Childbirth takes place at the intersection of time; in all cultures it links past, present and future. In traditional cultures birth unites the world of 'now' with the world of the ancestors, and is part of the great tree of life extending in time and eternity.
Sheila Kitzinger
#10. 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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#11. But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.
Orson Scott Card
#12. Rainy season should fill us with joy, not malaria parasites.
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#13. I started out looking for the perfect love story, but what I found instead was something even more beautiful - a messy love, an imperfect love, a human love. In this time of uncertainty, can I continue to love, even if it breaks my heart?
Velcrow Ripper
#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. They won't turn away a father who has come to find his son.
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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.
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#23. 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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#24. 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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#26. Most people around here prefer undead drivers, so I never get a chance to make any money on steady contracts.
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.
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#30. 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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#31. If literacy was natural, the word 'illiteracy' would not exist.
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#32. 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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#33. 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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