E. O. Wilson Quotes
All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.
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The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.
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Historically, in India, the strange fact was that the equity owner was not taking as much hit as the lender. Therefore, if we restore the first principle of economics, that first the equity owner needs to take the hit and then the lender, we will get a good solution.
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Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will write an international smash,' and shortly after, it was when we did 'Monster,' and it was an international smash.
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My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.
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People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
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Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
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It's difficult when you want it all.
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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.
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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that... Even if you write about me, it will reflect on you; everything is a kind of weird collaboration.
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.
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The prosperity of Masonry as a means of strengthening our religion and propagating true brotherly love, is one of the dearest wishes of my heart, which, I trust, will be gratified by the help of the Grand Architect of the Universe.
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However much you may have expressed love through your life, you can always express love more.
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All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.
