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The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.
– Evo Morales
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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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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
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The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.
– Bruno Rossi
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The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.
– Polykarp Kusch
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
– Wallace Stevens
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The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
– William Hazlitt
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
– Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
– Joseph Campbell
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The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available. As this new generation sees it, our tools are evolving faster than the human body, so why obey the limits of mere nature?
– Daniel H. Wilson
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The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
– Michael Pollan
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The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.
– Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
– George Santayana
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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
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The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.
– Dee Dee Myers
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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
– Samuel Smiles
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The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.
– Dennis Prager
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The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.
– Simon Mainwaring
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The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
– William Irwin Thompson
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The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
– H. P. Blavatsky
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The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.
– Lewis Thomas
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The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.
– Stella McCartney
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The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.
– Lee Scott
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The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.
– William Bartram
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The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.
– Phillip E. Johnson
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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
– Voltaire
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The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy.
– Paul Gillmor
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The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike.
– John O. Brennan
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Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
– Helen Rowland
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Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the spotty nature of rains can sometimes result in better yields than anticipated.
– Tom Vilsack
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Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.
– Juan Cole
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
– Salman Rushdie
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Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.
– Robert Redford
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Some of the best times I've spent in Colorado have been in the backcountry with my mom and siblings, and more recently, with my own kids. That is why I'm concerned to see today's kids spending more time browsing the Internet than exploring nature.
– Mark Udall
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Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
– Marshall McLuhan
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Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography.
– Peter Guber
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So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.
– Stephen Wolfram
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Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.
– Keith Haring
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Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
– Franz Kafka
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Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
– Luther Burbank
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
– Oliver Goldsmith
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Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.
– Jim Woodring
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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
– Brian Ferneyhough
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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
– Mason Cooley
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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
– Samuel Smiles
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Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
– John Barton
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Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.
– John Thorn
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Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.
– Thomas Kincade
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Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.
– Jenny McCarthy
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Painting is by nature a luminous language.
– Robert Delaunay
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Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.
– Blaise Pascal
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
– Paul Ryan
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Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.
– Jim Fowler
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Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.
– Ruth St. Denis
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
– Baruch Spinoza
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One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.
– Henri Poincare
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
– Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.
– Gregory Bateson
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
– Adam Clarke
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Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around.
– Richard Dean Anderson
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None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
– Morris West
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No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
– Arthur Erickson
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No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.
– Ellsworth Huntington
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
– Plato
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
– Tertullian
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Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
– John Dewey
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Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.
– James Buchan
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Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
– David Seabury
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Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
– Ivan Turgenev
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Nature engenders the science of painting.
– Robert Delaunay
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
– Alexander Pope
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Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
– Henry David Thoreau
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My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
– Martha Beck
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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
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Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
– Stephen Sondheim
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Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.
– Terry Riley
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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
– Camille Paglia
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Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.
– Rudolf Arnheim
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.
– Julia Ward Howe
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Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
– Jack Kingston
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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
– Titus Livius
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
– Victor Hugo
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Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.
– Imelda Staunton
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Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.
– Francis Ford Coppola
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Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
– Robert Delaunay
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Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.
– Archilochus
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Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.
– Roberto Cavalli
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Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
– Jeremy Collier
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Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
– Henry Adams
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Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
– John Muir
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Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.
– Donna Leon
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It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.
– Godfrey Reggio
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It's just a part of our nature to hope.
– Elizabeth Edwards
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It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
– Elvis Presley
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It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.
– Story Musgrave
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