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.

Charles Willson Peale

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• God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

  

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• I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.

  

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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.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
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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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• The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.

  

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• I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.

  

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• I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

  

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• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

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• As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
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• You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

  

  Vernon Howard
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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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• Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

  

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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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• I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.

  

  Rachael Ray
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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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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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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• Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.

  

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• I like to be wild, and I like to do wild, crazy things. I need excitement. At all times. Normal is not my type.

  

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• Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

  

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• I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.

  

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• When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.

  

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• It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.

  

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  • People
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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.

  

  Charles Willson Peale
  • Important
  • History
  • Concern