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.
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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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When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.'
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I always go to my mom's house for Christmas.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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I just want to make the best music I can make.
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I love and respect all religions and philosophies. I see how they get formed, how they grow up, and how powerful they are. But for me to believe in a specific god - no. Because what I believe is that the infinite, the absolute, is a living being and the only one living being that really exists.
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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.
