The vast majority of species that are vanishing, we haven't even discovered yet. How can you possibly put … - E. O. Wilson

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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

E. O. Wilson

The vast majority of species that are vanishing, we haven't even discovered yet. How can you possibly put them back in nature if the ecosystem is gone?

Ecosystems, Gone, Majority, Nature, Vast

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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

Character, Atheism, Arise, Arises, Religion

Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot find the precise place and hour. We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. We thrash about. We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life.

Confused, Godlike, Real, Stars, Stone, Technology

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.

Animal, Care, Creation, Genius, Nature, Pet

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

Like, Poet, Scientist, Thinking, Thinks

Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe.

Rest Of Life, People, Giving, Fit, Standard

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Jess Row

I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got. So when I discovered hip-hop as a teenager, at first it made no sense to me at all.

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Camille Paglia

Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.

Catchy, Emotional, Overkill, Song, Space, Special

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Everything we did was done in form and with propriety, and the result of our proceedings is the document [the Quebec Resolutions] that has been submitted to the imperial government as well as to this house and which we speak of here as a treaty. And that there may be no doubt about our position in regard to that document we say, question it you may, reject it you may, or accept it you may, but alter it you may not. (Hear, hear.

Doubt, Government, House, Propriety, Result

Ralph Ellison

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

Certain, Individual, Minorities, Minority

Ray Bradbury

The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.

Build, Fiction, Nails, Purpose, Wings