977 private quotes tagged nature

“A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.” — Thor Heyerdahl

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“Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.” — Andrew Cuomo

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“I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.” — Jerome K. Jerome

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“English majors understand human nature better than economists do.” — Jane Smiley

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“Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.” — Baruch Spinoza

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“I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.” — Alan Hovhaness

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“Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.” — Nicolas Chamfort

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“There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.” — Tony Campolo

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“I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.” — Georg Cantor

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“The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.” — Christopher Alexander

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“Nature abhors a vacuum.” — Francois Rabelais

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“Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this.” — Mercedes Ruehl

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“The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.” — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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“Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.” — Steven Pinker

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“The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.” — Rupert Sheldrake

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“Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.” — Andrew Marvell

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“It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.” — Taylor Caldwell

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“The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.” — Vera Farmiga

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“We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.” — David Ogden Stiers

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“Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.” — Andrea Arnold

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“There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.” — Stanislav Grof

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“Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.” — David Deutsch

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“Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.” — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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“Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.” — Primo Levi

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“The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.” — John Cage

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