H. G. Wells Quotes
It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Iris Murdoch
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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
Walt Mossberg
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
Harold Urey
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
Gary Bauer
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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
Harold Wilson
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
Tabatha Coffey
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
Salman Rushdie
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The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.
Nancy Gibbs
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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 Kuang
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Malcolm de Chazal
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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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We are not by nature cruel.
J. M. Coetzee
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It's human nature to want to be with other people.
Zoe Lister-Jones
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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From lower to the higher next,Not to the top, is Nature’s text;And embryo Good, to reach full stature,Absorbs the Evil in its nature.
James Russell Lowell
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They accuse me of having a hard hand, but people closest to me know that is not the nature of my heart.
Tomás Borge
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Art is only a way of expressing pain.
John Lennon The Beatles
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I absolutely love Las Vegas. I've been there a bunch of times on my own.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.
H. G. Wells