E. O. Wilson Quotes
Wonderful theory, wrong species. (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans.)
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My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
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Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.
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I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.
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They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.
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I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.
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Donald Trump has done a lot of horrible things on Twitter. From emboldening white supremacists to promoting violence against journalists, his tweets damage the country and put people in harm's way.
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I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.
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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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I was the Republican governor of the heavily Democratic state of New Mexico. I focused on good government, and I got it done - just like my running mate, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld. The people of New Mexico reelected me by a comfortable margin. Ditto for Weld.
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If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.
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When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.
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If you want to decide the question of migration without asking your citizens against the will of the people, you are fighting a losing battle.
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When I was 12, my mum put us in a summer camp meant for children from low-income families. It was in upstate New York where we had to live in tents, fetch water, cook our meals, and even dig our own toilet bowls.
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Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.
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As I had visualized, 'Heroine' is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film, like most of my other films, is a blend of facts and fiction. The film has a larger span, more characters, and costumes... a journey that revolves around an actress's life and the showbiz.
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One's native land!?there should one live! there die!
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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
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We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.
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There is just one life for each of us: our own.
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The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
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Wonderful theory, wrong species. (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans.)
