Rose George Quotes

China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that its soils are still healthy after four millennia of intensive agriculture, while other great civilizations - the Maya, for one - floundered when their soils turned to dust.

Rose George

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I'm not religious. I'm spiritual. Religious seems too much like a club.

Jeremy Irons

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Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

Stanislav Grof

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If I could be anyone, I'd choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.

Rob Kardashian

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My experience for myself as a performer is not one of high expectations.

Ruby Dee

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I really believe in myself.

Mirai Nagasu

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We are not saying that every idiot out there should own a gun - and there should be better background checks on guns. Not everybody should have the right.

Johnny Van Zant

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You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.

Derek Jeter

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Special operations are small, highly specialized. They do amazing work when they're put into the fight, but it's a limited resource. And so if we become overly dependent on an organization that's designed for a very specific mission and expect them to solve all problems around the world, you're naturally going to overextend it.

Chris Fussell

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The problem is that Abu Mazen signed an agreement with the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad.

Ariel Sharon

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I think we're just scratching the surface. One of the most exciting aspects of 23andMe is that we're enabling you to watch a revolution unfold live during your lifetime, and I think that the decoding of the genome, in my opinion, is the most fascinating discovery of our lifetime, and you get to be part of it.

Anne Wojcicki

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I'm rather inclined to liking people.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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DNA, like a tape recording, carries a message in which there are specific instructions for a job to be done.

Arthur Kornberg

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