E. O. Wilson Quotes
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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We were descended from royalty.
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I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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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.
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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.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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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.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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Writing is just always hard for me. It always feels like drawing blood. It's never particularly easy.
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Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.
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Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
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It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
