1,070 Quotes by E. O. Wilson



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    I think we will make it. Because one quality people have - certainly Americans have it - is that they can adapt when they see necessity staring them in the face. What to avoid is what someone once called the definition of hell: truth realized too late.

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    'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

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    There's a handful right now that we're pursuing within the region, ... Some of those have already been offered, and we need to get them. Maybe that will help some of the attrition.

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    This was one we really wanted to win. We just wanted to turn up the intensity and keep working hard as a team so we can keep playing.

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    People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club--any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.

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    Everything is coming along, ... But, getting into a game is still very tentative. It would be nice and it's something we're shooting for.

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