Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

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• But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

  

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• I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

  

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• It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.

  

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• If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

  

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• I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• By nature, men desire the beautiful.

  

  Saint Basil
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• I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.

  

  Barbara Block
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• We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

  

  Harold Ramis
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• I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.

  

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• It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

  

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• I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.

  

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• Sunlight is painting.

  

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• I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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• Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.

  

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• What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
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• 'Lost' is driving toward an ending, and that ending is: Are these people getting off this island? What is the nature of this island? What is going to happen to them? What is their ultimate fate? What is their ultimate destiny? Those questions need to get answered.

  

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• When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and the individual, the moral formula is void because inner necessity then makes it psychically and physically impossible to break the outer law. Thus, true morality is attained.

  

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• No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

  

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• A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.

  

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• We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Nature