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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
– Benjamin Haydon
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Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.
– Francis Herbert Hedge
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The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.
– Thomas Heywood
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Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
– Sidney Hook
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Every young girl should have the opportunity of learning out-of-doors by first-hand observation, the wonders and loveliness nature has spread so lavishly-and how it grows.
– Lou Henry Hoover
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Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.
– Charles Brenton Huggins
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One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.
– Charles Brenton Huggins
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It is not easy to be a nun. It is a life of sacrifice and self-abnegation. It is a life against nature. Poverty, chastity and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them. Pray that you may all become St Johns, lovers of Christ.
– Kathryn Hulme
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If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.
– Sol Hurok
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I never think of the measures necessary for the peace and good order of the colonies without pain. There must be an abridgment of what are called English liberties. I relieve myself by considering that in a remove from a state of nature to the most perfect state of government, there must be a great restraint of natural liberty.
– Thomas Hutchinson
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God's unchangeableness is the very foundation of desire and hope and activity in things religious as in things natural. The uniformity of nature's operations in the one, and the constancy of God's promises in the other, give aim and certainty to events.
– Edward Irving
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A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.
– Charles Ives
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A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.
– William Jay
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The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.
– Edward Jenner
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The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.
– Ernest Jones
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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
– Juvenal
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
– Alan Kay
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
– Garrison Keillor
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We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.
– Thomas R. Kelly
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Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
– Thomas a Kempis
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It would frighten me if I were to learn somewhere along the line that all of those emotions had been suppressed throughout my entire life, that would be very scary, because nature would express them, somehow, in some form.
– Ben Kingsley
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Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
– Paul Klee
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
– Karl Kraus
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Poets who know no better rhapsodize about the peace of nature, but a well-populated marsh is a cacophony.
– Bern Keating
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Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.
– Sam Keen
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This sharp increase in the number of the poor worsens our concern and anxieties on the real nature of the New World Order.
– Mathieu Kerekou
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The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.
– Franz Kline
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I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.
– Horst Koehler
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Truth and love are my law and worship; Form and conscience my manifestation and guide; Nature and peace are my shelter and companion; Order is my attitude; Beauty and perfection are my attack.
– Wayne Kramer
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He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
– Jack Kroll
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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.
– Charles Lamb
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
– Walter Savage Landor
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My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but out of logic. I rebelled, not but because of a religious or repressive childhood. I wanted to join the French Foreign Legion.
– Anton LaVey
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We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.
– Anton LaVey
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
– Stanislaw J. Lec
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
– C. S. Lewis
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I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.
– Bai Ling
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
– Bai Ling
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For, though every man has sin in him seminally, yet there are some sins which by nature he is more inclined to than others, according to his constitution.
– Christopher Love
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Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
– Clare Boothe Luce
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Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
– Susanne K. Langer
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Wait 'til next century. No millennium can hold the Cubs. The Cubs are bound by nature to reaffirm the futile and confirm the inadequate.
– Bernie Lincicome
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Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.
– Howard Lindsay
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Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.
– Linnaeus
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Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.
– Jacques Lipchitz
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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
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Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?
– William J. Locke
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The laws of nature are written deep in the folds and faults of the earth. By encouraging men to learn those laws one can lead them further to a knowledge of the author of all laws.
– John Joseph Lynch
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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.
– Peter Lynch
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Beauty and sadness always go together.Nature thought beauty too rich to go forthUpon the earth without a meet alloy.
– George MacDonald
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It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
– George MacDonald
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I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment, my life changed.
– Shirley MacLaine
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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
– Maurice Maeterlinck
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I know there's all this talk about my charisma deficit and I have to admit that I'm not a wild, in-your-face actor. It's not my nature to be flashy or extroverted and that's why I see it as a great challenge to me as an actor to be able to play against type and shake up people's perceptions of me.
– Tobey Maguire
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He got a corporation mind. He don't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.
– Norman Mailer
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In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.
– Joseph de Maistre
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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
– Paul de Man
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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
– Thomas Mann
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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
– Orison Swett Marden
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The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character, Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.
– Orison Swett Marden
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
– Harriet Martineau
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When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.
– John McCarthy
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It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
– Lord Melbourne
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The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.
– Herman Melville
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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
– Alice Meynell
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The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
– John Stuart Mill
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Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
– Henry Miller
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No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
– A. A. Milne
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Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
– Marianne Moore
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I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me - Gamester.
– Edward Moore
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My career was 100% different from what I intended to do. I thought I'd photograph nature and landscapes but I wound up photographing the changing of the times.
– Charles Moore
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
– John Muir
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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
– John Muir
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Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
– John Muir
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Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries.
– John Muir
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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
– John Muir
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
– John Muir
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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.
– Lewis Mumford
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You know, it's almost human nature. If you give me a gift, I feel indebted to you... assuming it's a substantial gift.
– Dick Murphy
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I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
– Miriam Makeba
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Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
– Bernard Mandeville
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All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.
– James C. Maxwell
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A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a bundle of facts. Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the law because they act in that way.
– Joseph McCabe
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The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
– Joseph McCabe
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For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.
– Tom McMillan
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It becomes part of a person's second nature; he belongs to the church, like he belongs to his family, and he does not quit his family because someone in it turns out to be a rascal.
– Sterling M. McMurrin
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Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.
– Al Michaels
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You are one of the forces of nature.
– Jules Michelet
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Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is willpower.
– Lord Moran
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Great Salt Lake is an ironical joke of nature - water that is itself more desert than a desert.
– Dale Morgan
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Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets.
– Vladimir Nabokov
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Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.
– Ogden Nash
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I am not too accusatorial or defensive by nature. I have always been kind of philosophical about it, remembering that it is just a game. People take these things too seriously.
– Steve Nash
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I don't think coaches should have to wear mic's. It is an invasion of privacy. We are trying to accomplish things, and wearing microphones may hinder development by straining the nature of relationships coaches and players have.
– Steve Nash
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Family, nature and health all go together.
– Olivia Newton-John
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Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
– Olivia Newton-John
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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To give style to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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