E. O. Wilson Quotes
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.
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Five wives can't all be wrong.
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I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.
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Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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I love proving people wrong.
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Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
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War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
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Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.
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When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.
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No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.
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Every good story is about who we are and our struggle to define ourselves.
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To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
