"When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are."

-- Ian Hacking

#Land Quotes #People Quotes #Needs Quotes

“When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you.”
“I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview: Shailene Woodley from The Secret Life of An American Teenager". Seveteen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. January 06, 2009.
“Most of my songs are about love, I am a 16 year old teenager and I sing about what is on every girls mind. Love”
“Every one is made of matter, and matter is continually going through a chemical change. This change is life, not wisdom, but life, like vegetable or mineral life. Every idea is matter, so of course it contains life in the name of something that can be changed. Motion, or change, is life. Ideas have life. A belief has life, or matter; for it can be changed. Now, all the aforesaid make up man; and all this can be changed.”
“One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.”
“I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.”
“No matter what youâ€™ve been through, no matter what others might have thought about you...you are who God says you are. You are talented, you are a success, and you are an overcomer!”
“I see myself as a very eclectic person and artist. I use all kinds of sources for the work as maybe some large pieces. Ideas come from all kinds of areas; literature, popular culture, dreams, you name it.”

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