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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In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically fermented to lactic acid or to ethanol and carbon dioxide.
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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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I hate flying. I don't like planes. I get really anxious.
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Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.
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The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
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My guys tried hard. I told them in the locker room it does hurt but that means we're playing games that mean something. Until you get to where you want to be at the top you have to go through some of this. It should hurt and it does hurt.
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I mean we certainly always shoot a lot of extra material, but our goal was to make kind of like a big kind of rock-and-roll road trip comedy that has heart and that has hopefully you feel bad for Russell and you feel bad for Aldeus and also I wanted to surprise people with some of the turns in the movie and I think when I watched it with audiences they certainly...the reactions made me think that we did and so all that I'm just very excited about it.
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Wonderful theory, wrong species. (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans.)
