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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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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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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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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On YouTube you can tell what countries are watching and I've definitely noted a strong Australian following. You can plan your tours around where the love is on Twitter and YouTube - before, you couldn't tell.
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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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The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
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Union can achieve everything when sustained by gallant hearts and correct principles, while anarchy and insubordination must fail in the achievement of every thing beneficial and glorious to mankind.
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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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A lot of people think our standard is to be first in the SEC, be first in the country, first in our red zone, and run defense. We really don't go by that motto. We go by, 'Be the best Alabama defense there's been.'
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To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.
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One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.
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Truth in our ideas means their power to work.
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That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered.
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Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
