"The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans."
-E. O. Wilson
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"I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.“
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"In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work."
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"I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it."
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"The education of women is the best way to save the environment."
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"We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely."
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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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"I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl."
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"When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied."
-John Woolman
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