"I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations."

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Source : Beatrix Potter (1982). “Beatrix Potter's Americans: selected letters”

Beatrix Potter

#Personality Quotes #Generations Quotes #Influence Quotes

“Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.”
“The right to privacy...is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.”
“Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.”

Source : Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.195, Penguin
“We South Vietnamese, we are very concerned about the ah, the fact that the communists are - were very shrewd in trying to take advantage of the American presence in South Vietnam to make the propaganda that they were the only one who fought for the independence of the country and against the, only foreigners, first the French and after that the Americans.”
“I didn't handle fame very well at first. I got a little resentful.”
“The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.”
“The continued existence of society depends upon private property.”

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