Tacitus Quotes
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Nature can do more than physicians.
Oliver Cromwell
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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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We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
Saint Bernard
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson
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One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
Sam Brownback
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
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True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.
Tara Brach
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I've been out all over the world tranquilizing animals.
Jack Hanna
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I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.
M. Night Shyamalan
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A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
Bainbridge Colby
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Conservatism by its very nature is compassionate.
Dana Perino
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Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.
Larry Wilcox
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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Mahatma Gandhi
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All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.
Victor Cousin
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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
Ramakrishna
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Everything great in western culture has come from the quarrel with nature.
Camille Paglia
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All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.
Edmund Burke
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As a result of subduing the forces of nature with the tools that we invent, we find ourselves today at the point where the force of our tools has become a greater concern than the forces of nature.
Elena Ferrante
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I have seen 'Fast Six,' and it's awesome.
Luke Evans
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For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.
Steve Israel
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Charity could chatter dorm-room Marxist theory with the best of them, but a single look from cool, silver-haired Lady Beddington was enough to make her tremble from head to toe.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
Tacitus