E. O. Wilson Quotes
The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbour a nonphysical mind.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.
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You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.
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As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.
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The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.
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Actors are cattle. I've always said actors are cattle. In fact, Carole Lombard once built a corral on set and put three live calves into it, in recognition of my feelings. I tell them that, and treat them as such, and we get along fineÇ
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The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star.
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No one fulfills himself fully. What is fulfilling oneself? Advancing as one can.
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The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbour a nonphysical mind.
