977 private quotes tagged nature

“Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.” — Xun Zi

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“I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.” — Arthur Erickson

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“It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.” — Karen Armstrong

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“I have a bit of a rebellious nature.” — John Cusack

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“Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.” — Werner Heisenberg

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“I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.” — Willie Stargell

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“Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.” — Lauryn Hill

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“French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.” — Kristin Scott Thomas

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“Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.” — Baruch Spinoza

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“Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.” — Manolo Blahnik

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“Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.” — Alfred North Whitehead

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“The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.” — Leon Trotsky

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“In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.” — Thomas Hobbes

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“There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.” — Charles Eastman

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“Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!” — Taslima Nasrin

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“Human nature is what Heaven supplies.” — Xun Zi

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“When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.” — Nicolas Chamfort

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“It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.” — Amy Grant

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“Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.” — Peter Ustinov

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“Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.” — Wislawa Szymborska

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“The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” — John Lubbock

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“I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.” — Hamlin Garland

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“The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.” — Empedocles

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