E. O. Wilson Quotes
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
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The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
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Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.
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I never had migraines. Never had migraines.
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We all went up to Washington on a mission to change things. What I found is that the Founding Fathers set it up where it's a little more difficult to do. We've got the Senate and the president to deal with.
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If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
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I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
