Nature Quotes
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Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
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Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
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I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.
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We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.
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Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.
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The nature of human beings is that we're competitive, and the chances are there's someone out there who's going to work harder than you and want it more than you.
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It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter,with the nature of his materials.
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To legislation... the Puritans resorted. Instead of guiding, they repressed, and thus pitted themselves against the unconquerable impulses of human nature. Believing that nature to be depraved, they felt themselves logically warranted in putting it in irons. But they failed; and their failure ought to be a warning to their successors.
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Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?
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People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
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It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.
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The simplest of simplest things makes me happy. I love small gestures and nature in life.
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If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand - nature; and do what a little child could do - love.
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Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
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What I do is very spiritual to me. I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.
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Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.
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Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.
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Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
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The concept of historical necessity is the product of rational thought and arrived in Russia by the Western route. The idea of the noble savage, of an inherently good human nature hampered by bad institutions, of the ideal state, of social justice and so forth - none of these originated or blossomed on the banks of the Volga.
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I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and sucks their blood, or the survivalists who kill people to save their own lives? Is evil merely a creation of people? Or is there an evil nature? Or is it in the eye of the beholder? I really like these questions.
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Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man's side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.
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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
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I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.
