Nature Quotes
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Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.
Len Wein
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A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.
Charles Ives
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By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound,
Adam Smith
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How we come to be, and how we are what we are, is beyond any understanding. I have been obsessed by this, trying to understand the very nature of my existence.
John Eccles
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As the days of spring arouse all nature to a green and growing vitality, so when hope enters the soul it makes all things new. It insures the progress which it predicts. Rooted in faith, growing up into love; these make the three immortal graces of the gospel, whose intertwined arms and concurrent voices shed joy and peace over our human life.
James Freeman Clarke
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People's conceptions about themselves and the nature of things are developed and verified through four different processes: direct experience of the effects produced by their actions, vicarious experience of the effects produced by somebody else's actions, judgments voiced by others, and derivation of further knowledge from what they already know by using rules of inference.
Albert Bandura
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I just love to be on my skis, skiing with my friends, just going out into the mountains and being in nature and skiing some powder. That's the best thing.
Candide Thovex
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Ah, how unjust to Nature and himselfIs thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!
Edward Young
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I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.
Oscar Wilde
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By its nature, governments and taxes are not voluntary. Government actions are violent and coercive, and theft as well.
Jeff Berwick
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I think chemists always think they know more than they know, because nature has a lot of possible pathways it can try.
David Grinspoon