I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.


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EDITH WHARTON
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON
I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
EDITH SITWELL
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
EDITH SITWELL
Poetry is the deification of reality.
EDITH SITWELL
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
EDITH SITWELL
Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi...
EDITH HAMILTON
Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming t...
EDITH HEAD
Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analo...
EDITH STEIN
Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a...
EDITH HEAD
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth...
EDITH WHARTON
I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
EDITH PIAF
My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
EDITH WHARTON
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
EDITH WHARTON
Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.
EDITH HEAD
Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young grateful...
EDITH HEAD
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON
Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
EDITH PIAF
...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all...
EDITH WHARTON
Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only cli...
EDITH WHARTON
When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
EDITH EVANS
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have ...
EDITH SITWELL
Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'M...
EDITH HEAD
Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,'...
EDITH PEARLMAN
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the cri...
EDITH WHARTON
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
EDITH WHARTON
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated.
EDITH HAMILTON
Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
EDITH WHARTON
As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must ...
EDITH STEIN
All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
EDITH PEARLMAN
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON
All I've done all my life is disobey.
EDITH PIAF
There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON
It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON
A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
EDITH HEAD