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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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"The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature."
Elihu Root
"The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature."
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"The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer."
Muhammad Iqbal
"The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer."
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"According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example."
Phillip E. Johnson
"According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example."
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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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"My nature just changes."
Jimi Hendrix
"My nature just changes."
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"My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her."
Joanne Woodward
"My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her."
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"Human nature is what Heaven supplies."
Xun Zi
"Human nature is what Heaven supplies."
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"A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence."
David Brainerd
"A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence."
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"That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit."
John Joly
"That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit."
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"Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man."
Nikita Khrushchev
"Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man."
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"In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder's Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature."
George Murray
"In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder's Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature."
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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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"My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained."
Brian Ferneyhough
"My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained."
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"Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature."
Billy Corgan
"Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature."
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"I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature."
Paul Cezanne
"I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature."
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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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"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."
Rutherford B. Hayes
"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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"The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master."
Henry James
"The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master."
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"One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly."
Maureen Dowd
"One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly."
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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."
Bill Frist
"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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"That's human nature - the ups and downs."
Jami Gertz
"That's human nature - the ups and downs."
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"We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places."
Patricia Ireland
"We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places."
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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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"Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress."
Wallace Stevens
"Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress."
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"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art."
Thomas Hardy
"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art."
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"I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure."
Danielle Dax
"I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure."
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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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"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses."
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"Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making."
Thurston Moore
"Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making."
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"I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum."
Desmond Tutu
"I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum."
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"Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language."
Alfred North Whitehead
"Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language."
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"Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself."
Paul Muni
"Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself."
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"While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend."
C. S. Lewis
"While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend."
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"Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature."
Charles de Secondat
"Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature."
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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
"Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves."
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"Stars," she whispered. "I can see the stars again, my lady."A tear trickled down Artemis's cheek. "Yes, my brave one. They are beautiful tonight."Stars," Zoe repeated. Her eyes fixed on the night sky. And she did not move again."
Rick Riordan
"Stars," she whispered. "I can see the stars again, my lady."A tear trickled down Artemis's cheek. "Yes, my brave one. They are beautiful tonight."Stars," Zoe repeated. Her eyes fixed on the night sky. And she did not move again."
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"It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen."
William Bernbach
"It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen."
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"Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art."
Baltasar Gracian
"Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art."
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"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."
Walter Bagehot
"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."
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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."
Wilhelm Dilthey
"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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"The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed."
Walther Bothe
"The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed."
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"I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators."
Ian Hunter
"I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators."
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"Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature."
Malcolm Boyd
"Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature."
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"The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it."
Terri Windling
"The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it."
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"Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature."
Joseph Addison
"Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature."
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"I am your moon and your moonlight tooI am your flower garden and your water tooI have come all this way, eager for youWithout shoes or shawlI want you to laughTo kill all your worriesTo love youTo nourish you."
Rumi
"I am your moon and your moonlight tooI am your flower garden and your water tooI have come all this way, eager for youWithout shoes or shawlI want you to laughTo kill all your worriesTo love youTo nourish you."
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"These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect."
Michael N. Castle
"These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect."
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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."
Jennifer Connelly
"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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"Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic."
David Rockefeller
"Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic."
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