977 private quotes tagged nature

“America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.” — Jerry Garcia

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“Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.” — Richard P. Feynman

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“Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.” — Lord Chesterfield

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“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.” — Eleanora Duse

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“Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.” — Paul Cezanne

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“The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.” — Mick Jagger

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“The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.” — John Stuart Mill

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“Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.” — Michael J. Fox

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“Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.” — Maynard James Keenan

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“All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.” — Marquis de Sade

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“I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.” — Pat Robertson

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“I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.” — Emily Bronte

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“Hidden nature is secret God.” — Sri Aurobindo

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“Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.” — Will Durant

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“The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.” — Alan Kay

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“It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.” — Max Beerbohm

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“People must help one another it is nature's law.” — Jean de La Fontaine

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“Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.” — Alphonse de Lamartine

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“It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.” — David Bailey

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“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.” — Eleonora Duse

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“People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.” — Bodhidharma

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“No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.” — Denis Diderot

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