Charles Willson Peale Quotes
Natural history is not only interesting to the individual, it ought to become a NATIONAL CONCERN, since it is a NATIONAL GOOD,—of this, agriculture, as it is the most important occupation, affords the most striking proof.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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God is decisively drawn to the humble.
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I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.
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The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.
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It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.
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I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features.
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To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.
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My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games. I know that's kind of hard to fathom.
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I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.
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If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.
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The level of sacrifice in the world of dancing is incredibly intense, that work ethic if nothing else - get up, go to class, rehearsal, performance, get up, go to class - that's your life, and it's like that for a finite time, usually.
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I try to read 20 books a year.
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Natural history is not only interesting to the individual, it ought to become a NATIONAL CONCERN, since it is a NATIONAL GOOD,—of this, agriculture, as it is the most important occupation, affords the most striking proof.
