Carl Linnaeus Quotes

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

Carl Linnaeus

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned ... The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.

  

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• I got my career start by first creating my own free, independent lifestyle in my own house out in the country. There I taught myself to make and later design furniture. I have continued to go my own way, always consciously needing to feel that I am moving forward.

  

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• I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.

  

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

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Should
  • Illustration