#ip

Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#based #canada #experience #force #labour

Ripping up carpet is easy, tiling is the issue. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#easy #issue #ripping #up

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#disappear #few #humanity #insects #land

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#cemetery #dominant #insects #make #make up

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#gossip #hear #like #someone #something

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#dear #desperate #fiddling #his #life

I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#both #consequences #discussion #function #genuine

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#efforts #forms #fully #government #international

I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page. ↗

— Luke Wilson

#bad #envied #got #had #i

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ↗

— Mark Twain

#contentment #friends #friendship #life #friendship