Bert Holldobler Quotes
We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.
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When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?
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I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
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If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I have quite a foul mouth.
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You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.
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If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.
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Before a shoot, I'll watch what I eat. During the shoot, I watch what I eat. Afterwards, the first thing I do is go have a steak and French fries.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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We can go and play in front of 30,000 people and we wouldn't give a shit. We wouldn't be nervous or anything. But if we played in front of our friends we'd be like really embarrassed and really nervous.
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I can't play any horns. Every time I tried to take saxophone lessons as a kid ... I can't whistle. I don't know if that has anything to do with.
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It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?
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I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.
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I did 'The Sound of Music.' That was my first musical.
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We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.
