E. O. Wilson Elves Quotations

We sunk ourselves in the first half. Offensively, we weren't protecting the ball very well. We weren't countering our defensive stops with anything offensive.

We pushed to do things to please ourselves for once. We pursued the things we liked and made sure that we were all happy with the results.

Untended property becomes fair game for people out for fun or plunder and even for people who ordinarily would not dream of doing such things and who probably consider themselves law- abiding,

It makes too much sense for our cities to market themselves as one to the rest of the country. Think of how the Carolina Panthers first began marketing themselves. They weren't the Charlotte Panthers. Now they draw from the whole state and South Carolina.

The fact the race is so based on name recognition only, those that can raise enough money to buy billboards and commercials will make it, ... and those people don't always necessarily have the city in their best interests. Those of us who may not have the resources to do it, fight for the little votes out there, and we end up dragging ourselves down.

We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

I've had several people in the last two days come over and identify themselves as Amtrak riders and the fact that Amtrak's not running, that they would have to catch the bus.

I don't think we see ourselves as a Cinderella. We knew we could do this, it was just a matter of going out and proving it.