E. O. Wilson Quotes
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
E. O. Wilson
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
Imelda Staunton
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
Edith Widder
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
Karl Liebknecht
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
Gavin Newsom
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
Utada Hikaru
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
Felix Dennis
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Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see.
John D. MacDonald
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Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
Zane Grey
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Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.
Franz Kafka
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O blissful poverty!
Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns
Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace,
Her real goods; and only mocks the great,
With empty pageantries!
Elijah Fenton
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I'm not super-polite or civil - I try to be civil, but I'm not into Seattle's niceties, and I'm not hugely wired into Seattle's natural beauty.
David Shields
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
E. O. Wilson
