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I think scented messages in her dung will help send Romeo up the right tree so that he doesn't waste precious energy scaling the wrong one.

But then, why waste precious energy on it, particularly after that journey?

It's amazing when you meet a head of state, and you say, "What is your most precious natural resource?"

Raising your bite against the bitter dark Your bright longing Your brilliant fists of loss Friend if the only thing we have to gain in staying is each other, my god that’s plenty my god that’s enough my god that is so so much for the light to give each of us at each other’s backs whispering over and over and over “Live” “Live” “Live” It's amazing, when you meet a head of state and you say, "What is your most precious natural resource?"

How precious are these lines from the poet Derek Walcott? Patrick memorized this poem.

So at this point, you would assume that we should be treating soil like the precious resource that it is.

So for example, in Seattle, where I live, when in 2014 we passed our nation's first 15 dollar minimum wage, the neoliberals freaked out over their precious equilibrium.

If the rocks could talk, I suspect they might say this: life on Earth is precious.

I want to touch its precious screen.

And yet, for those who are patient enough to dig through it, the archive provides the precious opportunity to touch the past, to feel and learn from the experiences of once-living people who now seem dead and buried deeply in the archive.

So precious time is required to eliminate misidentification.

This is my precious trash pile as seen in 2015 after putting on a first edition of the "Museo de la Basura," or "Museum of Garbage."

Ruminations often deny us our most precious moments.

You know, we can't allow the burning of our precious rainforests.

Down 40 percent in our broadloom carpet business, which we acquired in 1993 right here in California, City of Industry, where water is so precious.

[If we who lost what is most precious can talk to each other,] [and look forward to a better future,] [then everyone else must do so, too.]

But almost all these superhuman skills rely on the same precious resource: the spice.

Climate change is the most horrible symptom of an economic system that has been built for a few to extract every precious value out of this planet and its people, from our natural resources to the fruits of our human labor.

She calls her a precious greenstone, a little warrior, and tells her how the Lord and Lady of the Ninth Sky breathed life into her, sending her to this place of burden and torment.

Heroin, cocaine, women being trafficked into prostitution and precious minerals.

She laughs and says, "Oh, precious, stand up.

It’s a dangerous journey that takes five days, precious time he doesn’t have to waste.

In return, the other shaman gives him the precious cinnabar.

And the idea of course was to make the type so precious that as an audience you would be in between, "Should I really take as much money as I can?

You have heard this ableist trope before: the boy with Down syndrome who's one of God's special children, or the girl with the walker and the communication device who is a precious little angel.

Obviously, in schools, we owe it to them to make sure those 180 days of the year, from that little precious age of four, until 18, 20, 24, whatever, they need to be cooked proper, fresh food from local growers on site, OK?

So if you lose that precious resource, where you are somewhat equal to the richer countries, that's a huge waste.

What you do is extremely precious.

And it's destroying that precious benthic community on the bottom, things like sponges and corals, that critical habitat for other animals.

We're looking at building on some of the most precious resources of Africa: people.

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