E. O. Wilson Quotes
I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.
Quotes to Explore
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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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'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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Losing the ability to make these distinctions is one sign of what psychoanalyst William Niederland called “soul murder.” Erasing awareness and cultivating denial are often essential to survival, but the price is that you lose track of who you are, of what you are feeling, and of what and whom you can trust.
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There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.
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I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God.
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.
