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"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."
Saint Augustine
"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."
Samuel Adams
"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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"I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea."
Charlotte Eriksson
"I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea."
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"In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres."
Hans Frank
"In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres."
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"Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time."
Karel Capek
"Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time."
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"Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s."
Desiderius Erasmus
"Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s."
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"By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed."
O. Henry
"By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed."
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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
"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."
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"Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God."
Elias Hicks
"Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God."
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"The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night."
Haruki Murakami
"The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night."
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"Mother nature changes her looks for the same reason any woman changes her looks-to be noticed."
Richelle E. Goodrich
"Mother nature changes her looks for the same reason any woman changes her looks-to be noticed."
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"Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers."
Ray Bradbury
"Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers."
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"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, - no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, - no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair."
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"It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive."
Barry Mann
"It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive."
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"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."
William Wordsworth
"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."
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"You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand."
Princess Anne
"You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand."
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"The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition."
Stephen Gardiner
"The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition."
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"Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony."
Guillaume Apollinaire
"Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony."
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"We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second."
Colin Mochrie
"We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second."
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"The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art."
Frank Moore Colby
"The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art."
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"There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath."
Herman Melville
"There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath."
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"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."
Edward Hopper
"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."
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"When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising."
John McCarthy
"When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising."
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"Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all."
Michael J. Fox
"Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all."
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"Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil."
Anatole France
"Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil."
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"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature."
Thorstein Veblen
"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature."
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"We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed."
John Ashcroft
"We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed."
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"There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature."
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
"There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature."
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"Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.""
Robert Byrne
"Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.""
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"The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual."
John Muir
"The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual."
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"There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession."
Tim Bishop
"There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession."
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"Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense."
William Lyon Phelps
"Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense."
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"Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them."
Eugene Wigner
"Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them."
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"Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature."
Martin Chemnitz
"Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature."
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"Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
William Butler Yeats
"Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
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"Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears."
Charles D. Broad
"Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears."
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"There is a great deal of human nature in man."
Charles Kingsley
"There is a great deal of human nature in man."
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"Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others."
Lord Chesterfield
"Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others."
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"Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet."
Jack Herer
"Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet."
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"The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce."
Friedrich List
"The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce."
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"I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals."
Jonathan Shapiro
"I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals."
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"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."
Baruch Spinoza
"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."
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"Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God."
Story Musgrave
"Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God."
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"Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame."
Tertullian
"Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame."
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"I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial."
Charles Baudelaire
"I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial."
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"At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect."
Herman Melville
"At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect."
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"All art is but imitation of nature."
Seneca
"All art is but imitation of nature."
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"The tasteof rain-- Why kneel?"
Jack Kerouac
"The tasteof rain-- Why kneel?"
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"Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature."
Hosea Ballou
"Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature."
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"One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought."
Daniel Boone
"One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought."
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