E. O. Wilson Quotes

The selection pressures of hunter-gatherer existence have persisted for over 99 percent of human evolution.

E. O. Wilson

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• What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Business
  • Small
  • Party

• We are all seduced by charismatic people, whether it's in your office or in the bus or in the train. There are people who just, like, come through the door, and everybody turns around and looks at them and feels drawn to them.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Door
  • Train

• I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Want
  • City

• Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Information

• Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • English
  • Same
  • France

• The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Simple

• I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's what I'm committed to doing. I think it's been the goal of every NDP leader. Because we had a profound belief that we could do a good job on behalf of Canadians... if we were given that opportunity.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• My music is a luxury.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Music
  • Luxury

• I'm without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they're more stream-of-consciousness. It's very rare that I'm going to tell a really concrete story.

  

  Washed Out
  • Doubt
  • Story
  • Process

• There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is always a challenge for any author.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • World
  • Present
  • Challenge

• I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Say
  • I Can
  • Painful

• Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Small
  • Goal

• You know, I Google search my own name because I'm so self-obsessed!

  

  Eddie McClintock
  • Search
  • Name
  • Google

• I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Myself
  • Risks
  • New Things

• I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Hands
  • Books
  • Smell

• 'Some,' answered Imlac, 'have indeed said that the soul is material, but I can scarcely believe that any man has thought it, who knew how to think; for all the conclusions of reason enforce the immateriality of mind, and all the notices of sense and investigations of science, concur to prove the unconsciousness of matter.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Soul

• Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?

  

  Larry Wall
  • Running

• I am a simpleton at heart. In my personal life, I don't wear makeup.

  

  Bipasha Basu
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Makeup

• Some people may think that it is a dangerous attitude to take toward the Bible, to pick and choose what you want to accept and throw everything else out. My view is that everyone already picks and chooses what they want to accept in the Bible...I have a young friend who whose evangelical parents were upset because she wanted to get a tattoo, since the Bible, after all, condemns tattoos. In the same book, Leviticus, the Bible also condemns wearing clothing made of two different kinds of fabric and eating pork...Why insist on the biblical teaching about tattoos but not about dress shirts, pork chops, and stoning?

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Parents
  • Friend
  • Bible

• I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

  

  John Mahoney
  • Life

• I was raised to believe in myself. I know I'm cool. I'm not trying to brag or say I'm the man or anything like that. I don't lie or cheat, and I'm not mean to anybody. I treat people with respect.

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Plan
  • Planet
  • Environmental

• The selection pressures of hunter-gatherer existence have persisted for over 99 percent of human evolution.

  

  E. O. Wilson