Carl Linnaeus Quotes
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
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Pakistan has accepted some security training from the CIA, but U.S. export restrictions and Pakistani suspicions have prevented the two countries from sharing the most sophisticated technology for safeguarding nuclear components.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
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I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it's painful, so it's gotta do something.
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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I have nothing to do with Donald Trump.
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To fight a war, you must believe it can accomplish something. We fight this one to save John’s kingdom, or perhaps even to save all of mankind...but isn’t that what we always think? That all wars are useless-except the one we’re fighting now?
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A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
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There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that I'm just really excited about. There seems to be a big gap between the generation above and us; it seems to be quite radically different in terms of form and approach.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Michael Jackson changed the world and, more personally, my life forever.
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Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.
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Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideology.
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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.
