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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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.
Empedocles
Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always has to pause to wonder how much you have to drink to die at 34. And he was a really tragic father. I mean, he was absolutely unreliable. He was absolutely involved with various people. He had outside families, outside children, outside wives. He made his wife's life miserable. And she Eleanor Roosevelt ignored all of his faults and retained this sense of him as the perfect father.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
Oh, complain, complain! you know, when life gives you lemons.
Ahn Jae-hyo
Block B
The man coming back from the hard mountain trip is a wiser being, calmer and radiating inside. I'd say momentary liberated.
Wojciech Kurtyka
The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.
Bill Gates
The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.
Albert Camus
All along, let us remember we are not asked to understand, but simply to obey.
Amy Carmichael
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.' In other words, love is a dominant strategy.
Avinash Dixit
Everything with a beginning has an ending. Any magic that can be done, can be undone. Anything you can make, can be unmade.
Brandon Mull
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
