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It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.
– Robert Shea
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
– Niels Bohr
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It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
– John Ruskin
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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.
– Christopher Morley
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
– Edgar Allan Poe
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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
– Muhammad Iqbal
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
– Denis Diderot
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It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
– Franz Liszt
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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
– Taylor Caldwell
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It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
– Vladimir Nabokov
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
– Sallust
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Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
– Jane Smiley
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In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
– Henri Matisse
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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
– Xun Zi
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
– Carl Sagan
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If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
– Charlotte Bronte
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If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
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If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
– Edward Hopper
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If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
– Eleanora Duse
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If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
– Eleonora Duse
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If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
– Julian Assange
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If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.
– Jon Meacham
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If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
– Thomas Huxley
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
– Jacqueline Bisset
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I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
– Norman MacCaig
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I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.
– Julie Bowen
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I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
– Neil Young
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I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.
– Christina Aguilera
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I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
– Lady Gaga
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I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
– Joan Jett
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I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do.
– Joni Mitchell
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I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
– Emily Bronte
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I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.
– Michael Sheen
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I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
– Annie Leibovitz
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I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.
– Jimi Hendrix
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I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.
– Regina Spektor
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I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.
– Tiger Woods
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I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
– Neil Armstrong
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I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.
– Newt Gingrich
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I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.
– Julie Andrews
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I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
– Gary Chapman
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I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.
– Richard Russo
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I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
– Henry Rollins
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I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.
– Cass Sunstein
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I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.
– Steve Lacy
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I think I have a dualistic nature.
– Bob Dylan
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I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.
– Georg Cantor
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I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
– Arthur Erickson
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I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.
– Ayelet Waldman
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I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.
– David Attenborough
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I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.
– Lena Dunham
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I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature.
– David Duchovny
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I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.
– Pat Robertson
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I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.
– Anna Kendrick
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
– Paul Cezanne
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I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out.
– Hugh Jackman
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I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
– Edward Steichen
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I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
– Michelangelo
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I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
– Julius Caesar
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I have a bit of a rebellious nature.
– John Cusack
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I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
– Willie Stargell
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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
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I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
– Peter Singer
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I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.
– Bryan Cranston
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I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.
– Yvon Chouinard
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I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.
– Matt LeBlanc
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
– Gustave Flaubert
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I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
– Jerome K. Jerome
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I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
– Herbert Read
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
– Wendell Berry
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.
– Sidney Sheldon
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Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.
– Noam Chomsky
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Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
– Mason Cooley
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Human nature is what Heaven supplies.
– Xun Zi
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Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
– Xun Zi
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Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
– David Hume
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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
– Margaret Mead
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Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.
– Sienna Miller
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Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
– Xun Zi
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
– Xun Zi
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
– Graham Greene
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Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
– Conor Cruise O'Brien
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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
– Camille Paglia
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Hidden nature is secret God.
– Sri Aurobindo
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.
– Georg C. Lichtenberg
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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
– Aristotle
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
– Socrates
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Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.
– William Bartram
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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
– Blaise Pascal
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Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
– Marcel Proust
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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
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
– Ben Stein
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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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