E. O. Wilson Quotes
The most peaceable tribes of today were often ravagers of yesteryear and will probably again produce soldiers and murderers in the future.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.
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If you want a president to stop amnesty, to secure the borders and keep us safe, then support a candidate who has led the fight to stop amnesty to secure the borders and to keep us safe.
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Poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labor and exploitation of children … It’s a triangular relationship between child labor, poverty and illiteracy, and I have been trying to fight all of these things together.
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You don't have to label yourself, because it's not set in stone. It's so fluid, and there's so much pressure on kids to label themselves and say, 'This is what I am; this is what I like.'
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The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.
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We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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The most peaceable tribes of today were often ravagers of yesteryear and will probably again produce soldiers and murderers in the future.
