Carl Linnaeus Quotes

A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.

Carl Linnaeus

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• 'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.

  

  Ian McShane
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• There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

  

  Sally Field
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• Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.

  

  Kailash Kher
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• I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

  

  Lars von Trier
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• I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

  

  Eddie Floyd
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• I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

  

  Alan Ball
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• We aim to be producing 75% of our work for Avon in Poland by Q1 2007.

  

  Ian Wright
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• The home studio has taken a bite. People are choosing cheapness over quality. They just don't want to spend the money.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
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• Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.

  

  Angelina Jolie
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• I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

  

  Alicia Keys
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• Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her.

  

  Val Doonican
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• Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if it is willing to pay the price, and that price is not a big salary, but great praying.

  

  R. A. Torrey
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• Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Time
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  • Society

• The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.

  

  Dainin Katagiri
  • Life
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• You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Go
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• The country has been patient, we have been patient, but now ordinary Americans are being seriously harmed by this dispute.

  

  Elaine Chao
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• The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept of human society. It is not about nature or scientific ecology; it is about environmentalism, about one - recently born - dirigistic and collectivistic ideology, which goes against freedom and free markets.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
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  • Society
  • Science

• Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.

  

  Leon Trotsky
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  • Russia
  • Build Up

• It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders.

  

  Plato
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  • Consider

• It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.

  

  Morris Graves
  • Prayer
  • Painting
  • Dedication

• The person who should really write an appreciation of the late great Dom DeLuise is Burt Reynolds, who, even more than Mel Brooks, made of the jolly, beanie wearing fat man a side-kick and a legend.

  

  Rich Cohen
  • Should
  • Appreciation
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• A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Should
  • Illustration