E. O. Wilson Quotes
The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under the care of its parents... But to what extent does the wiring of the neurons, so undeniably encoded in the genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow?
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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The world is awaiting your gift - all you have to do is show up with the right intention!
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Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.
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We're in this really different world of television where everybody is binge watching, and it almost doesn't matter where you're airing.
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Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
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What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.
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The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under the care of its parents... But to what extent does the wiring of the neurons, so undeniably encoded in the genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow?
