977 private quotes tagged nature

“Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would.” — Thomas Hardy

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“It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“Nature is neutral.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.” — Rutherford B. Hayes

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“God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.” — Pat Robertson

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“The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” — Harriet Ann Jacobs

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“The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.” — John Milton

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“Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.” — Maria Mitchell

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“I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.” — Cass Sunstein

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“Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.” — Lord Acton

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“In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.” — Xun Zi

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“None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.” — Marian Anderson

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“To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.” — James Whistler

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“It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.” — Bjork

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“A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.” — Tacitus

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“Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.” — John Garamendi

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“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.” — Denis Diderot

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“Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.” — Andre Breton

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“Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.” — Baruch Spinoza

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“What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.” — Dominic Monaghan

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“In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.” — Henri Matisse

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“Nature is a petrified magic city.” — Novalis

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“The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.” — Giacomo Casanova

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“If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.” — Julian Assange

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“Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.” — Robert Bork

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