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Gregory Benford Quotes

In coastal waters rich in runoff, plankton can swarm densely, a million in a drop of water. They color the sea brown and green where deltas form from big rivers, or cities dump their sewage. Tiny yet hugely important, plankton govern how well the sea harvests the sun's bounty, and so are the foundation of the ocean's food chain.

Gregory Benford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: physicist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 30, 1941

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Sea Water Food Ocean Sun Green

With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but these, remaining, as it were, external to the subject's conscience, do not really transform his conduct.

Child Rules Intention Down Moral

The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined.

Best World You Know Prepare Your

I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.

Character Hockey Mask Wish Become

I'm a professional, and I know in football that everything can change in one day, so I am excited to show everyone my football.

Change Day Football I Am Know

This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on the streets of Mogadishu in the absence of a plan. It broke our heart.

Home Heart Men Wife Plan Young

I actually started snowboarding when I was 7 years old, so I felt very comfortable auditioning for a snowboarding movie, and I thought that would give me some leg up.

Me Thought Comfortable Snowboarding

I always think long term about anything. That's why I have never sold anything that I've ever purchased. And I never purchase anything that I don't think I'm going to keep for a lifetime.

Donald Sterling

Value Losing Winning Better You Say

So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

Deborah Norville

Ideas You Nothing Big Take Bite

Our lives aren't prepackaged along narrative lines and, therefore, by its very nature, reality-based art - underprocessed, underproduced - splinters and explodes.

Nature Art Narrative Lines Along

I have gotten better at saying to myself, 'Relax and just take this moment in. Appreciate it for what it is.'

Myself Moment Relax Saying Better

I don't know if you're familiar with Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. You step outside the hotel, and you're soaking wet within 10 minutes.

Craig Fairbrass

Step Hotel You Know Outside Within

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

Christine Lahti

Respect Money College Care Political

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