A Quote by Henry Spencer

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

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Henry Spencer
Canadian - Scientist
Born: 1955

Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.

Kinky Friedman

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

Gore Vidal

There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.

Davy Crockett

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

Robin Williams

Cal Poly is my kind of school. So many universities I visit boast about boring alumni like pioneering surgeons and Olympic athletes. But Cal Poly has none other than Weird Al Yankovic!

Milo Yiannopoulos

If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.

Francis Crick

You know the beauty of driving one of these? (Wulf) No. (Cassandra) You can swat a Daimon like a mosquito. (Wulf) Well, since they’re both bloodsucking insects, I say go for it. (Cassandra)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms the Darwinian selection mechanism for small-scale changes, but hardly warrants the grand extrapolation that Darwinists want. It is a huge leap going from insects developing insecticide resistance via the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection and random variation to the very emergence of insects in the first place by that same mechanism.

William A. Dembski

I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatisit.

Don Marquis

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

Dean Koontz

They say that generally, rulers - dictators - tend to be short, like me. It gives them an inferiority complex; when they were kids, they wanted to be big and to crush the small, but they were small themselves. Lenin was short, Stalin was short, Putin...

Vladimir Voinovich

There was a 'magic rock' my mom would lift up, and under the rock was a bunch of bugs. Roly-poly bugs and worms. Somehow I thought that it was a magical world of insects, and I wanted to go there. It was the same impulse as 'Pikmin' - I wanted to go into that world.

Tim Schafer

Things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.

Paul Fussell

Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.

Michael O'Donoghue

I don't care how small or big they are, insects freak me out.

Alexander Wang

Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones fitted for survival in the nuclear age. The cockroach, a venerable and hardy species, will take over the habitats of the foolish humans, and compete only with other insects or bacteria.

H. Bentley Glass

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