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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#aim high #alone #behave #best #capable

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#cook #destroying #economic #gain #like

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#behavior #choice #corrosive #economic #economic growth

It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#having #knowing #like #stars #where

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 two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#century #challenges #economic #economic situation #improve

The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico. ↗

— Heather Wilson

#care #economy #families #growing #health

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#functions #insisting #making #mistake #monopoly

And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#believe #change #economic #education #i

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