E. O. Wilson Quotes
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
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Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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The media is controlled.
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Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.
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The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.
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One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
