"He liked the loneliness of inner space, the……" — Richard Preston
"He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world."
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Richard Preston
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16 Quotes by Richard Preston
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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…
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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…
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Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of…
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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…
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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…
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During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with…
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Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are…
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It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into…
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More Forgotten Quotes
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their…
— Margaret Atwood
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a…
— Don Adams
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Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.
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Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.
— Milton Berle
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
— Annie Besant
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Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.
— Juliette Binoche
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Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
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Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope…
— Bono
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