Peter Singer Quotes
Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!
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I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.
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Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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If ever the Time should come, when vain & aspiring Men shall possess the highest Seats in Government, our Country will stand in Need of its experienced Patriots to prevent its Ruin.
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I like my music to be like a buffet. If you don't like this plate, there's another one for you.
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Privacy is tremendously important. I believe the American people, and all people, should be skeptical of government power, should ask hard questions: What is the authority? What is the oversight? That's the way it ought to be.
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I love to prune. I have a physical need to do things.
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As we consume more than ever, climate change is accelerating as well. In fact, we know that 2014 was the hottest year in human history. These pressures combine to create real threats to security and stability around the world.
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I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.
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Obviously, I've been very lucky in general in my career, but I feel that I've been very lucky in terms of having directors come along at the right times who have taken me to the next level of where I needed to be.
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I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.
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I'm for anything that teaches consideration and kindness. If one can teach one's son to dance with the ugliest little girl in the room, that's the best lesson they can ever learn.
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In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.
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How this is possible is, first, by being, literally, several in a single body. “We are twelve in my body. We are packed like sardines.” In other words, the being that I am exists each time in several modes—or, let us say, several beings, which, although sometimes mutually exclusive, are nevertheless inside one another.
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Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
