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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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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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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The foreign directors are always fumbling about in obscurity, and the critics are always writing about the juxtaposition of black and white and the existential dilemma and all that shit, to disguise the fact that they don't understand the first damn thing about it either.
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No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.
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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.
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Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated.
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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.
