E. O. Wilson Pose Quotations

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.

No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

People must belong to a tribe; they yearn to have a purpose larger than themselves. We are obligated by the deepest drives of the human spirit to make ourselves more than animated dust, and we must have a story to tell about where we came from, and why we are here.

It'll take Joe a little while to accept that he's not a Bruin anymore, and I can understand that. You tend to think about the team that didn't want you as opposed to the team that did want you. Those feelings are going to be there and we'll help him deal with them.

How are people supposed to keep jobs and make a living and do this too? I'm already late to work and I can't give up my job.

So, they're supposed to be home at the right certain time. If they're not, it's going to tell them that they're not there and then they can actually locate, find out where they're at.

Somebody close to the President of the United States decided that in order to defend Bush's political agenda, that individual or individuals would violate the national security of the country and expose my wife's name and her profession.

On behalf of the BBF, I want to give Mr. William Sands and Commonwealth Bank our sincerest thanks. Without their assistance it would be extremely difficult to send our award-winning team to the competitions they need to go to in order to put them on the international stage. The team needs to be exposed to this level of competition in order to prepare for the Olympics. We are also heartened by the fact that Commonwealth Bank supports our sport of basketball, which plays a tremendous part in the development of our youth.

We're told we're not supposed to gossip, that our reputation plummets, but in this context there may be an expectation that you should gossip: you're obligated to tell, like an informal version of the honor code at military academies,

This is our first Brits. We weren't supposed to win this one. This means the world.

For him to suddenly propose in front of reporters on the Eiffel Tower and jump up and down like the monkey in Curious George on Oprah Winfrey's couch, there truly is some problem there.