The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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.
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