Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
E. O. WILSONPeople respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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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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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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