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So it's a very precious thing that we're using to dye our foods.
These are precious to us, these divides.
If there is one thing BP's watery improv act made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.
So once again, why do we take these crazy risks with the precious?
Our lives are so short, and our time on this planet is so precious, and all we have is each other.
And my new dream is to improve, adapt and deploy the system all over the world to prevent loss of life and ensure a safe flow of people, because every human soul is precious, whether at concerts or sporting events, the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, the Hajj in Mecca, the Shia procession to Karbala or at the Vatican City.
I carried my payload back downstairs where I met my nemesis and the precious dog by the front door.
But I do think it could be quite a smart and sustainable addition to our increasingly precious natural resources.
Because the DNA of the dinosaur that was trapped in the amber gave us some kind of clue that these tiny things could be trapped and be made to seem precious, rather than looking like nuts.
So the idea was to take these 66,000 seeds that they agreed to give us, and to take each seed and trap it in this precious optical hair and grow that through this box, very simple box element, and make it a building that could move in the wind.
This is precious metals and gemstones.
So watching all of this show from outer space, you think we get it, we understand that the most precious resource on the blue planet is our consciousness.
But really, every measurement it makes is precious, because it's teaching us about the relationship between stars and planets, and how it's really the starlight that sets the stage for the formation of life in the universe.
My mama told me long ago I've lost so many precious things, I know They won't be back Where did they go?
And so I thought I would tell a story about someone who made one of the most precious objects of his era.
Could we take this precious and rare cancerous material from this chest tube and drive it across town and put it into mice and try to do a clinical trial at a stage that with a prototype drug, well, that would be, of course, impossible and, rightly, illegal to do in humans.
And lastly the most precious resource we have on this Earth is fresh water.
And so I ask myself, I'm starting to ask myself now, even before this extreme dream gets achieved for me, I'm asking myself, and maybe I can ask you tonight too, to paraphrase the poet Mary Oliver, she says, "So what is it, what is it you're doing, with this one wild and precious life of yours?"
But cutting into the bones of a dinosaur is hard to do, as you can imagine, because in museums, bones are precious.
One of the things that I really like about my work is that it allows me to step back from my every day and to experience the larger context, this feeling that just as we go out and try to find planets in the universe that might be like ours, it always reminds me of how precious what we have here is.
And just a few short years following their discovery, aluminum changed from a precious metal costing as much as silver to a common structural material.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School lost 17 precious lives on that horrible day.
Your most precious asset goes out the elevator every night.
Let's go to the data, beginning with the most precious thing of all, life.
And we want to send a message that you do not mess with something so fundamental, so precious, as science.
The mind, our most valuable and precious resource, through which we experience every single moment of our life.
And I think it has potential benefits in all sorts of areas like online shopping, maybe interactive museum exhibits, where you're not supposed to touch the precious artifacts, but you always want to.
It is precious, it is unique, it is still, so far, the only home we've ever known.
It taught me so much about love, and my relationship with my parents and my doctors has been so precious to me, and will be always."
He lived in constant fear every day that his precious, tattered motorcycle would be ripped away from him, as it had before.
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