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Peale

[peel]

noun

  1. Charles Willson 1741–1827, and his brother James, 1749–1831, U.S. painters.

  2. Norman Vincent, 1898–1993, U.S. Protestant clergyman and author.

  3. Raphaelle 1774–1825, and his brother Rembrandt 1778–1860, U.S. painters (sons of Charles Willson Peale).



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Each gallery introduces and anchors itself with a major artwork at its entrance—such as, in American Art, Peale’s “George Washington at the Battle of Princeton.”

Itoje quoted bible scripture, Farrell quoted, kind of, the American clergyman and psychologist, Norman Vincent Peale when talking about shooting for the moon and, even if you miss, landing among the stars.

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Terens, who is participating in a longevity study at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said his life has been deeply influenced by the work of the late Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, who wrote the 1952 best-seller, “The Power of Positive Thinking.”

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The only religion he's ever known has been Norman Vincent Peale's Prosperity Gospel, which is itself a venal, disgusting twisting cooked up to serve the wealthy and punish the poor.

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Artworks in “Leisure, Culture, and Comfort: 18th and 19th Century America,” including a painting by Charles Willson Peale from 1771, the earliest image in the exhibition, will show old-fashioned scenes of women playing for pleasure or holding guitars passively.

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