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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I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.
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History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.
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The sky's the limit if you have a roof over your head.
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I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.
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You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it.
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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.
