E. O. Wilson Quotes
Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.
Quotes to Explore
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.
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She was someone who was full of life ... She represented everything that was wonderful about Sweden and about Europe.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.
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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.
