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Nature Quotes
"Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature."
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"You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' -Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer."
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"If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do."
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"Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit."
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"An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature."
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"I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations."
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"All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I."
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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."
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"Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?"
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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."
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"Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us."
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"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."
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"Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality."
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"I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow."
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"In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be."
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"It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years."
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"It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination."
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"I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero."
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"Let us give Nature a chance, she knows her business better than we do."
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"But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required."
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"The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them."
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"Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture."
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"I have only one prejudice in horseflesh - I do not like a white one."
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"A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it."
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"If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature."
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"Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling."
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"From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible."
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"The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets."
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"Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny."
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"It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal."
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"The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know its moods, its color, its nature."
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