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.
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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.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.
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If we cannot find 'patient zero' then it means the virus is even more ubiquitous than we thought.
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life.
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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.
