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... ours is a sick profession marked by incompetence, lack of training, misconduct and bad manners. Ineptness, bungling, malpractice, and bad ethics can be observed in court houses all over this country every day ... these incompetents have a seeming unawareness of the fundamental ethics of the profession. ... the harsh truth is that ... we may well be on our way to a society, overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated. – Justice Warren E. Burger	added by Normando 3 years ago
We've just been cutting people's trees down in their yard because the insurance isn't going to cover that and we've been taking care of that and we've been going through like a swarm of locusts taking all these trees down. – Danielle Hecker	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We've been rather lucky that we've got a week or two to get our acts together and stop locusts before summer sowing gathers momentum. – Bhagirath Choudhary	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We need to have mobility that is equivalent to the desert locusts, that's what helicopters give us. – Cyril Ferrand	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The second wave is coming, as crops are planted, locusts will eat everything. – Cyril Ferrand	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The most important thing we found in our research was that if you take two locusts coming in one direction and one in the other then these two locusts can turn this individual, and if you don't include this' two meets one' interaction then you find that you can't replicate these startling switches of behavior that you see in the locusts, the same sorts of things that you might see in flocks of starlings changing direction quickly or in schools of fish. – Christian Yates	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If we can somehow increase the external noise that these locusts are experiencing then we might be able to break up the swarm, isolate the individuals, and deprive them of the benefits of being in a swarm. – Christian Yates	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

... ours is a sick profession marked by incompetence, lack of training, misconduct and bad manners. Ineptness, bungling, malpractice, and bad ethics can be observed in court houses all over this country every day ... these incompetents have a seeming unawareness of the fundamental ethics of the profession. ... the harsh truth is that ... we may well be on our way to a society, overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.

– Justice Warren E. Burger

added by Normando
3 years ago

We've just been cutting people's trees down in their yard because the insurance isn't going to cover that and we've been taking care of that and we've been going through like a swarm of locusts taking all these trees down.

– Danielle Hecker

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We've been rather lucky that we've got a week or two to get our acts together and stop locusts before summer sowing gathers momentum.

– Bhagirath Choudhary

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We need to have mobility that is equivalent to the desert locusts, that's what helicopters give us.

– Cyril Ferrand

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The second wave is coming, as crops are planted, locusts will eat everything.

– Cyril Ferrand

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The most important thing we found in our research was that if you take two locusts coming in one direction and one in the other then these two locusts can turn this individual, and if you don't include this' two meets one' interaction then you find that you can't replicate these startling switches of behavior that you see in the locusts, the same sorts of things that you might see in flocks of starlings changing direction quickly or in schools of fish.

– Christian Yates

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If we can somehow increase the external noise that these locusts are experiencing then we might be able to break up the swarm, isolate the individuals, and deprive them of the benefits of being in a swarm.

– Christian Yates

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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