E. O. Wilson Quotes
Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
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My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
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Actors, after all, dream.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
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Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition. Mostly, I'm interested in doing real sports.
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If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.
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Perfektion? Being the most human you can be.
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I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities; but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown.
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Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.
