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.Richard Preston
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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.
Haile Selassie -
It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
Kate Moss -
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.
Ignatius of Antioch -
The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
Naoto Kan -
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.
Jack O'Connell
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I'm a real people-pleaser.
Dana Carvey -
The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed
Garry Winogrand -
A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise manĀ“s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.
Dalai Lama -
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.
Bill Vaughan -
You may imagine me the very shadow of my husband.
Dolley Madison -
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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There's a sense that there is a culture of cronyism and corruption and incompetence
Norman Ornstein -
I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
Norman MacCaig -
It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.
Bill Reid -
There are many ways of performing the operations successfully. I can claim, however, to be in a position to explain how not to putt. I think I know as well as anybody how not to do it.
Harry Vardon -
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.
Richard Preston