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Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

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• I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Catholic

• I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• 'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Blessed

• When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• Fashions fade, style is eternal.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Style
  • Eternal
  • Fade

• When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Heart
  • Through
  • Recall

• Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Dark
  • Now
  • Physical

• Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Church
  • Late
  • Legal

• It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • American
  • Culture

• And at the time the Republican Congress and a Senate candidate by the name of Mitt Romney - crowd boos No, no, no - Don't boo, vote. Vote! Voting's the best revenge.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Revenge

• Within your magic web of hair, lies furledThe fire and splendour of the ancient world;The dire gold of the comet's wind-blown hair;The songs that turned to gold the evening airWhen all the stars of heaven sang for joy.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • World
  • Joy
  • Heaven

• The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.

  

  Sam Harris

• Dreams of doing goodFor good-for-nothing people.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • People
  • Good

• Mr Raj had been purely Orientally and fancifully complimentary (‘So great a man, his lingam as long and thick as a tree, the father of whole villages’).

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Great
  • Long
  • Father

• Desperate courage makes One a majority.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • Courage

• One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Work
  • Important
  • Holiday

• What is needed now is action, not hopelessness

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Action

• Rascals are always sociable - more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others’ company.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Character

• Throughout the day, I'm always thinking about 500, the team, and how we can do things harder/better/faster/stronger.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Thinking
  • Team

• Every organization has two choices. Choice one is to grow. Choice two is to die. If you decide not to grow, it's a clear-cut message to talented people that it's time to leave.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin
  • People
  • Time
  • Die

• To come home and have three songs working on radio, I can't tell you how happy I am. It is amazing.

  

  Conrad Sewell
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Amazing

• In the first year of Martha`s life I discovered that I no longer loved my husband. A hard year, the baby barely slept and wouldn`t let me sleep. Physical tiredness is a magnifying glass. I was too tired to study, to think, to laugh, to cry, to love that man who was too intelligent, too stubbornly involved in his wager with life, too absent. Love required energy, I hand none left. When he began with caresses and kisses, I became anxious, I felt that I was a stimulus abused for his solitary pleasures.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Life
  • Sleep
  • Loved

• Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?

  

  Walker Percy
  • Come
  • Categories
  • Classes

• Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

  

  Vandana Shiva