Nature Quotes
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
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Nature's laws have to supersede man's law.
Mary Beth Whitehead
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
Ian Mckellen
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The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
Mary Shelley
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I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.
B. Kevin Turner
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Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.
Dave Navarro Jane's Addiction
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
Oscar Wilde
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Though I am, as you know, a pacifist by nature, I am not disposed to go to all lengths to meet people who seem to be behaving with utter unreason.
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
G. M. Trevelyan
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
Denis Diderot
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.
Ayn Rand
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Let us see delineated before us the true map of man. Let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God-that consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest or happiness.
John Adams
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We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
Ellsworth Huntington
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I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.
Karan Singh Grover
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As a general matter, I believe we should be very slow to make conclusions about the nature of the cosmos based upon inner experience – no matter how profound these experiences seem.
Sam Harris
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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
Wallace Stevens
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
Taylor Dayne
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
Octavio Paz
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The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Langston Hughes
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
Naomi Weisstein
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
E. L. Doctorow