Richard Preston Quotes
As life forms, viruses are just inherently interesting. It's the microworld - this universe of life too small for us to see - but it's profoundly complicated, and immensely powerful. Ebola is like a beautiful and frightening predator. There is a wonder in the operations of nature that can't be denied, even when we're the losers.
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Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
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You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the presbytery as you would the Apostles; reverence the deacons as you would God's commandment.
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Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'
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The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
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I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.
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I'm a real people-pleaser.
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The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed
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A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.
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I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
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You may imagine me the very shadow of my husband.
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There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.
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I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
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It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
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On the one hand, I'm a kind of crazy anarchist-sympathizer with a hippie background, so this sounds pretty good to me. Make something for the love of it! But the reality is so much more complicated.
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Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.
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As life forms, viruses are just inherently interesting. It's the microworld - this universe of life too small for us to see - but it's profoundly complicated, and immensely powerful. Ebola is like a beautiful and frightening predator. There is a wonder in the operations of nature that can't be denied, even when we're the losers.
