#lit

In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#duty #ethic #had #honor #i

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#baptist #believes #biological #different #evolutionary

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#air #down #down to earth #earth #else

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#ease #ill #poise

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#elder #election #fastest #lose #politician

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep. ↗

— Harold Wilson

#asset #believe #get #good #greatest

I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce. ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

#art #believe #care #fame #i

I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#child #felt #grief #i #kind

My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater. ↗

— Richard Wilson

#local #never #responsibility #screen #see

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#communication #define #elite #formula #may