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E. O. Wilson Quotes

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 10, 1929

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Wrong Sometimes Profound Because

What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.

Time Teamwork Management Help You

I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store in Queens. It was for older women. I got my bras there, until I realized I didn't want those huge, taupe bras. Everything was beige, with massive amounts of hooks.

Jessica Valenti

Women Parents City Growing Up Long

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

Life Civilization Silent Comfortable

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.

Challenge Financial End Political

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Adversity Man Free Being Most State

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

Technology Control Always Everything

People will come up to me at shows and tell me that a song touched them in a completely different way than I wrote it. That's fun. Fans translating it in their own way.

Fun People Me Song Will Way

I absolutely do care what people think about me.

People Me Think Care Absolutely

I was always the funny-looking girl. I couldn't compete with the Brazilian girls. My nose is off, my ears are too big. But I think it's my personality that these designers were drawn to.

Girl Personality Think Compete Big

If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.

Environmental Energy Risk Pursue Gas

The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.

Future Today Past Animal Memory Now

Fashion is more about feel than science.

Pharrell Williams

Science Fashion Feel More Than

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