E. O. Wilson Quotes
If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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I am what we call a 'karma yogi' in Sanskrit. A karma yogi is somebody who believes in data. I collect a lot of data.
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Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
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As long as the fans keep wanting to hear new records from us every few years, we'll keep making them.
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
