E. O. Wilson Quotes
No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I like being unconventional.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
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Nothing lasts.
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The unforgivable sin of Hitler's Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their profits.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world.
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Why do other first world countries give children so many fewer vaccines than we do? Vaccines save lives, but might be harming some children. Is moderation such a terrible idea?
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No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously.
