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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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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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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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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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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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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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Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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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.
