Nature Quotes
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Taking a backseat role is not in my nature.
Pollyanna Chu
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Little white lies are part of everyday life. If youre in court being charged with a felony, youre probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; youre going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; its human nature.
Monica Raymund
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If the private insurance market can survive in a context of a public option, good for them. But if they can't, then that will tell you something about the nature of the market.
Brian Schatz
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We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading nature of that which only superficially seems to be obvious. It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
Marquis de Sade
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The paradigm of the 'Aquarian Conspiracy' sees humankind embedded in nature. It promotes the autonomous individual in a decentralized society... The new perspective respects the ecology of everything: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics.
Marilyn Ferguson
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Atheism is based upon a materialist philosophy, which holds that nothing exists but natural phenomena. There are no supernatural forces or entities, nor can there be any. Nature simply exists.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.
Carl Linnaeus
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't know it.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis.
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
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We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.
Alexander Polyakov
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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
Brian Ferneyhough
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The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.
James Loeb
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No reason to get angry at anybody for slapping you literally or figuratively. It's just nature unfolding perfectly and obviously that slap is part of my process that is shaping me as I become all I'm becoming. I'm sure this understanding will be a big help to us in our yoga practice and also as a teacher. More than anything though, it will affect the way we look at everything in our life, which affects how we respond to things.
Bryan Kest
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The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.
Jack McDevitt
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I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social and economic inequities between men and women.
Natalie Portman
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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
Jimmy Wales
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Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.
Victor Hugo
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I think of Wakandan technology as organic technology. Most of their tech mimics nature because it comes from nature.
Brian Stelfreeze
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I have five kids, and people can say 'nature versus nurture,' but it is nature! Nurture has so little to do with it. I have five kids, and there are five totally different people in my house.
Kenya Barris
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Sometimes human nature can leave you looking just a little shamefaced.
P.B. Kerr
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Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.
E. M. Forster
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And so long as I can laugh, never will I be poor. This then, is one of nature's greatest gifts and I will waste it no more.
Og Mandino
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With 'Dawn,' I wanted the slick look; I wanted to bring out the nature of the shopping center, the retail displays, the mannequins. There are times when maybe you reflect that the mannequins are more attractive but less real - less sympathetic, even - than the zombies. Put those kinds of images side by side, and you raise all sorts of questions.
George A. Romero