Alexander Acosta Quotes
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
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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.
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Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.
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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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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.
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Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.
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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the whole Welsh people would do anything to entertain, and would even neglect their business to do so. But as a stranger in Wales, it is difficult to break through their suspicion and mistrust.
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
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Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.
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… honoring one’s created nature
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Everything great in western culture has come from the quarrel with nature.
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I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
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If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
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I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers.
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Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.
