Nature Quotes
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Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.
Brian Greene
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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring.
John Constable
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I didn't go in there and tell them I think you should move me, but I also understand the nature of this business.
Anthony Davis
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Human nature must be changed if we are ever to have an end to war or to correct the wrong situations that make our lives uneasy and our hearts sore. Now Christianity, the power of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit of God, is the only force that can change people for good.
Peter Marshall
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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
Baruch Spinoza
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As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.
Alan Watts
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We now know that sex is complicated enough that we have to admit nature doesn't draw the line for us between male and female, or between male and intersex and female and intersex; we actually draw that line on nature.
Alice Dreger
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Criminality is a basic part of human nature.
Mark Frost
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I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of pain and indignity... they would like to end their life before nature intended, and we think they should have the choice to do so.
Margo MacDonald
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The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.
Bill Vaughan
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The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.
John Bates Clark
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For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.
Aristotle
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I was never going to become a beautiful, passable woman, and I was never going to be a man. It's a quandary. But the trans condition is a beautiful mystery; it's one of nature's best ideas.
Anohni
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Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.
Elias Hicks
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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
Francis Bacon
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
Pliny the Elder
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I do love one-upmanship sometimes, like when you see kids breakdancing and who can do the best tricks. It's common, it's in our nature as animals, like the birds of paradise who've got the best feathers and that sort of stuff. But it's fun when it's impulsive and it's about fun.
Bjork
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Because of the nature of my brand, it's so important our readers know it really is me behind my keyboard.
Brit Morin
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I have had the same friends since college, although as time has gone on, the daily nature of those relationships has changed, such that it is not daily at all.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Nature has a way of taking care of things. If you have a certain figure you'll go back to it. Breast feed and don't worry about it.
Eva Herzigova
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From my point of view, he can be called a remarkable man who stands out from those around him by the resourcefulness of his mind, and who knows how to be restrained in the manifestations which proceed from his nature, at the same time conducting himself justly and tolerantly towards the weaknesses of others.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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Through some strange and powerful principle of ''mental chemistry'' which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, ''that something'' which recognizes no such word as ''impossible,'' and accepts no such reality as failure.
Napoleon Hill
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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
Christopher Morley