977 private quotes tagged nature

“Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.” — Lauryn Hill

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“Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.” — Arthur C. Clarke

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“Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.” — Ben Stein

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“Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.” — Bhumibol Adulyadej

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“The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.” — C. Northcote Parkinson

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“Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.” — Graham Greene

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“The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.” — Joni Mitchell

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“Sound is the vocabulary of nature.” — Pierre Schaeffer

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“I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.” — Michael Sheen

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“Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.” — Sienna Miller

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“I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.” — Bryan Cranston

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“Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.” — Bjork

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“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.” — Walter Bagehot

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“People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.” — Diablo Cody

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“There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.” — Jane Smiley

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“Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.” — Samuel Richardson

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“The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.” — Quintilian

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“As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.” — David Suzuki

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“We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.” — David Suzuki

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“Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.” — Jane Smiley

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“Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.” — Camille Pissarro

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“Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.” — Pliny the Elder

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“To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.” — Alex Grey

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“Custom is second nature.” — Augustine of Hippo

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