E. O. Wilson Quotes
Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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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'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
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It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.
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I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference. I was moving about with my own gang, the skinheads, wearing steel-toed army boots and kicking in shop windows.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
