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“Only mosquito can save Nigeria. Only mosquito can save South Africa. Only mosquito can save Zimbabwe Only mosquito can save Namibia. Only mosquito can save Africa. Only malaria can save Africa. Only yellow fever can save Africa.”
― Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

“But perhaps I was destined for a more glorious end, one worthy of envy, as Victor Hugo said2—like, for example, being pounded, shredded, asphyxiated, blown to bits in a cloud of smoke.”
― Louis Barthas, Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918

“Our section chief found himself there in conversation with a “Fritz” who spoke fairly good French. He was saying that they were mostly Poles in his regiment. They wouldn’t surrender, because the Germans would take it out on their families and their property. But this Pole suddenly indicated that someone was coming along the boyau, and he dropped down, calling out Vive la Pologne! Vive la France!”
― Louis Barthas, Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918

“We don’t remember isolated facts; we remember things in context.”
― Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything