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Nature Quotes
"When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night I mourn'd - and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring."
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"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience."
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"When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished."
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"The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall."
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"Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies."
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"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction."
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"Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers."
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"The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly."
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"Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured."
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"Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive."
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"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
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"Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer."
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"The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject."
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"For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it."
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"It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy."
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"Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil."
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"We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing."
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"Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed."
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"A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office."
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"There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession."
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"I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head."
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"Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself."
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"There is a great deal of human nature in man."
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"Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs."
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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."
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"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."
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"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule."
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"The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway."
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"Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature."
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"Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature."
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"A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature."
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"I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course."
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