Richard Preston Quotes

If a portion of a redwood is rotting, the redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrients out of itself as it falls apart. If we had redwood-like biology, if we got a touch of gangrene in our arm, then we could just, you know, extract the nutrients and the moisture out of it until it fell off.

Richard Preston

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• Redwood

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• I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

  

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• The emotions of the game do not change.

  

  Jack Youngblood
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• Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

  

  Karl Kraus
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• I was in just the right generation to have taken feminism seriously by osmosis - also the generation when the breakdown of the family really began and for whom The Smiths were something new and essential.

  

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• Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.

  

  Jeff Shaara
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• To err from the right path is common to mankind.

  

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• For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.

  

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• Oh, complain, complain! you know, when life gives you lemons.

  

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• The man coming back from the hard mountain trip is a wiser being, calmer and radiating inside. I'd say momentary liberated.

  

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• It is a privilege to be recognized by FDLA. I am a staunch believer that as a member of the Bar, we have the great privilege to represent clients in all facets of our practice, and that includes making the commitment to represent clients for whom access to representation and ultimately justice is limited by economics. As all of the “20 for 20 honorees have done, stepping up to meet that commitment is at the heart of what it means to be a lawyer. I hope the inspiring stories and contributions of my fellow honorees will shine a bright light on FDLA and this most important mission.

  

  Terrence J
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• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  

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• You’d best ask the lady boffin, sir,” Newkirk said. “Midshipmen aren’t allowed to have opinions.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Opinions
  • Ask

• I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

  

  Zach Braff
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• Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.' In other words, love is a dominant strategy.

  

  Avinash Dixit
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• If a portion of a redwood is rotting, the redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrients out of itself as it falls apart. If we had redwood-like biology, if we got a touch of gangrene in our arm, then we could just, you know, extract the nutrients and the moisture out of it until it fell off.

  

  Richard Preston
  • Biology
  • Portion
  • Redwood