E. O. Wilson Quotes
This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
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My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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Habit is a great deadener.
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I'd like there to be less refugees. I'd like all girls to go to school. That's what we need to be thinking about, and working on making our own families good and strong and our own kids happy.
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The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.
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If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.
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In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.
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The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.
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This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.
