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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.


E. O. Wilson

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E. E. CUMMINGS It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
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