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Richard Preston has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.
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The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.
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Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade of decay,…
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You can’t fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten…
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Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with…
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The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.
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The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence…
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If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.
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What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory…
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During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight…
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Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked, even…
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It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close…
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Brevity - the sister of talent.
— Anton Chekhov
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Whatever advice you give, be short.
— Horace
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The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity…
— Eduard Suess
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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.
— Louise Brooks
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My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.
— William Zinsser
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Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
— William Zinsser
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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