E. O. Wilson Quotes
The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
Quotes to Explore
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
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I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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A nerd will be a nerd all his life.
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Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
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The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
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I'm not the average artist.
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You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
