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The baby snow leopard spit the bottle out, and rolled over onto its back, paws in the air. It made a soft mewing sound.
I WANT ONE
The cub spun around, and sunk its tiny teeth into his fingers.
Good girl.
It’s a radio tag, Ian. Which means that this unusual animal, this warm-blooded lizard or whatever it was, was tagged and raised by somebody from birth. And that’s the part that’s got people around here upset. Somebody’s raising these things.
Wherever this creature lived, its environment was extremely stressful and dangerous.” “I see.” “So. How come a tagged animal has such a stressful life?”
The machine picked up; Levine wasn’t there. Typical, Malcolm thought. Whenever you needed him he wasn’t there. Probably off trying to get his Ferrari out of impound again.
Now now he might actually have a valid excuse this time
They found themselves in a large open shed. Workmen were making modifications on several vehicles; the air smelled of acetylene, engine oil, and fresh paint.
I'm beginning to see the outline of the movie
fifty five.
Hyphenate
“Internal Ursine Deterrent—that’s
lol poor bears
These rich kids, they do whatever they want. A guy like Levine gives spoiled a bad name.”
lmaooooooo he's busy
plat form,
One word
Thorne said, “He didn’t tell you?” “No,” Kelly said. “No,” Arby said. “Well, he didn’t tell me, either,” Thorne said, shaking his head.
lol
“God save me from academics.” “I thought you were an academic,” Kelly said. “Former academic,” Thorne said briskly. “Now I actually make things. I don’t just talk.”
lmao I like this guy
“How can you design for people if you don’t know history and psychology? You can’t. Because your mathematical formulas may be perfect, but the people will screw it up. And if that happens, it means you screwed it up.”
These kids were smart, they were enthusiastic, and they were young enough so that the schools hadn’t destroyed all their interest in learning. They could still actually use their brains, which in Thorne’s view was a sure sign they hadn’t yet completed a formal education.
“Of course the auto companies discarded it—it’s a good idea. Don’t want any good ideas coming out of a big company. Might lead to a good product!”
“Malcolm!” Thorne snorted. “Spare me! Peas in a pod, those two. Each more impractical than the other.
CRUEL BUT TRUE
When you see we’re down to the exterior struts and the upholstery, the fact is, we’re done. He’s going to hold us up. It’s very inconsiderate of him.”
Well how dare he be possibly dead.
Sarah Harding was one of Kelly’s personal heroes. Kelly had read every article she could about her. Sarah Harding had been a poor scholarship student at the University of Chicago but now, at thirty-three, she was an assistant professor at Princeton. She was beautiful and independent, a rebel, who went her own way.
Oh I LOVE this
Once, when her Land Rover broke down, she walked twenty miles across the savannah all by herself, driving away lions by throwing rocks at them.
Holy shit
Thorne said no more. He could see all the signs of hero worship, and he approved. A girl could do worse than admire Sarah Harding.
Okay now I REALLY like him
Geniuses never pay attention. They think they know everything.
Thorne unlocked the door to Levine’s apartment,
Why does he have a key
“Yeah, he does,” Thorne said, pocketing the key. “It always looks like this. It’s why he can never live with a woman. He can’t stand to have anybody touch anything.”
LMAO BURNNNNNN
bespectacled Chinese man in a white lab coat,
Henry?
“What’s this?” Thorne said. “Levine has an InGen computer?” “Yes,” Arby said. “He sent us to buy it last week. They were selling off computer equipment.”
“That memo,” Arby said, nodding to the wall. “You know why it looks that way? It’s a recovered computer file. Levine’s been recovering InGen files from this machine.”
“Doc,” Arby said. “Come on. Go and, uh, I don’t know. Help Kelly or something.”
Why don't you eat that lovely dinner that will go to waste anyway
But in the last decade, a growing interest in social behavior had led to still another view. Dinosaurs were now seen as caring creatures, living in groups, raising their little babies.
For Malcolm, the truest picture of life in the past incorporated the interplay of all aspects of life, the good and the bad, the strong and the weak. It was no good pretending anything else.
Obsession is just a variety of addiction.
Okay just @ me Ian
Local people call them the Five Deaths.”
“He has lots of German books,” Kelly said. “Does he? That bastard. He never told me.”
Rude Ian
James considered following Malcolm, but he had something else to do now. He turned on the car ignition, picked up the phone, and dialed.
What a squealer
Dejected, they drifted over to the vehicles, gleaming beneath the ceiling lights.
Still uneasy, Kelly moved toward the back of the trailer, where there was a homey little living area, complete with gingham curtains on the windows. Compact kitchen, a toilet, and four beds. Storage compartments above and below the beds. There was even a little walk-in shower. It was nice.
That does sound nice
And Phil was sort of creepy. But her mother liked Phil, so she never wanted to hear Kelly say anything bad about him. She just told Kelly to grow up.
I don't know this woman but I already know I don't like her
Harding couldn’t see the calves; they were below the grass. But she could hear their plaintive cries.
Poor babies ;o;
She was attacked for being a woman, for being attractive, for having “an overbearing feminist perspective.” The university reminded her she was on tenure track. Colleagues shook their heads. But Harding had persisted, and slowly, over time, as more data accumulated, her view of hyenas had come to be accepted.
GOOD FOR HER
Within a few moments, other lions appeared, and settled down to feed on the hyenas’ kill.
Rude
“And the kids don’t know?” “No,” Thorne said.
Oh they will
“But you didn’t know where the island was, did you?” “No. I hadn’t put it together yet.” “Do you think anybody else has?” “No,” Malcolm said. “We’re on our own.”
I wouldn't count on that
Within the company, Dodgson presented himself as a researcher, even though he lacked the ability to do original research, and had never done any. His intellect was fundamentally derivative; he never conceived of anything until someone else had thought of it first.
OH SHIT LOLOLLLLLLL
“What I can’t forget,” Rossiter said, “is that we paid seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars to your friend Nedry, and have nothing to show for it.”
Womp.
Consider—an animal that is extinct, and is brought back to life, is for all practical purposes not an animal at all. It can’t have any rights. It’s already extinct. So if it exists, it can only be something we have made. We made it, we patent it, we own it.
And nobody loves a lizard. They’re not like these cute doggies that lick your hand and break your heart. Lizards have no personality. They’re snakes with legs.”
Wow that's nice >:(
Dripping wet, Thorne stood and waited while the Costa Rican official went over the papers, again and again. Rodríguez was his name, and he was just a kid in his twenties, wearing an ill-fitting uniform, terrified of making a mistake.
#RelatableContent
But they were still experimental, which to Eddie was just a polite word for “unreliable.”
lol
Under the circumstances, Eddie did the only sensible thing: he built in a few extras, and didn’t tell anybody about it.
Fair.
“Me, I always like a Pizza Hut nearby, you know what I mean?”
ME TOO
any more.
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