E. O. Wilson Quotes
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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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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The actors work out how to create the show with me during the rehearsals. They owe it to themselves and each other to maintain that contract regardless of what the critics say.
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I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.
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People's faith, people's beliefs are such a personal thing, and it defies definition. I'm so rarely interested in discussing what I believe or what you believe. I think it's liquid, anyway.
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In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
