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People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
– Bodhidharma
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People must help one another it is nature's law.
– Jean de La Fontaine
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People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.
– Diablo Cody
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Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.
– Martin Scorsese
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Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
– Edward Hopper
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Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one's sensations.
– Paul Cezanne
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Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.
– Lauryn Hill
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Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
– Blaise Pascal
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
– Denis Diderot
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
– Bodhidharma
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Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.
– Tom Hiddleston
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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
– Lewis Thomas
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Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave it is not in his nature.
– Laurence Sterne
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
– William Shakespeare
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One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.
– Thor Heyerdahl
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
– Bodhidharma
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Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
– Thomas Huxley
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Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
– Andy Goldsworthy
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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.
– Desiderius Erasmus
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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
– Xun Zi
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Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
– Michael Faraday
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Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
– Andrew Bernstein
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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
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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
– Samuel Richardson
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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
– Baruch Spinoza
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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
– William Howard Taft
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
– Sophocles
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No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.
– Joni Mitchell
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
– Denis Diderot
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No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
– Thomas Szasz
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Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.
– Andrew Cuomo
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Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
– Marquis de Sade
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.
– Camille Paglia
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Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
– Henry David Thoreau
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Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
– David Attenborough
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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
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Nature never breaks her own laws.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.
– Nicolas Chamfort
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Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.
– Bhumibol Adulyadej
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Nature is wont to hide herself.
– Heraclitus
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Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
– Annie Leibovitz
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
– Galileo Galilei
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Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
– Doug Coupland
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Nature is perfect.
– William Shatner
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Nature is neutral.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
– Gertrude Stein
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Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
– William Shakespeare
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
– Novalis
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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
– Charles Baudelaire
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
– Victor Hugo
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
– Marquis de Sade
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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nature does nothing in vain.
– Aristotle
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
– Samuel Johnson
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Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this.
– Mercedes Ruehl
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Nature can do more than physicians.
– Oliver Cromwell
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
– Francois Rabelais
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Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
– George W. Bush
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My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.
– William Bartram
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My nature just changes.
– Jimi Hendrix
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My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.
– Lee Atwater
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Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.
– Geraldo Rivera
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Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.
– John Garamendi
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Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.
– Herbert Simon
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Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
– Aleister Crowley
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Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
– Xun Zi
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
– Aeschylus
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Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.
– Steven Pinker
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Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
– Blaise Pascal
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Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
– Eric Hoffer
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Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.
– Jean Ingelow
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
– Blaise Pascal
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Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
– Arthur Keith
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Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
– Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
– Albert Schweitzer
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Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.
– Henry Miller
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Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
– Zane Grey
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Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.
– George W. Bush
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Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.
– Tom Hiddleston
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Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
– Syd Barrett
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Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.
– Michael J. Fox
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
– Carl Sandburg
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It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
– Carrot Top
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It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'
– Marco Rubio
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It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
– Bjork
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It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.
– David Hackworth
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It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
– Karen Armstrong
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It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
– Zora Neale Hurston
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
– P. D. James
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It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
– John Paul Jones
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It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
– Max Beerbohm
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