Nature Quotes
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The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.
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With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.
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Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
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We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.
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In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
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The fool of nature stood with stupid eyesAnd gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
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Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life
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I had a great career. I have no reason to complain. It's the way it goes in nature. You slow down. And I believe I lasted a lot longer than a lot of people.
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The philosopher must teach these pupils French students that it is far less essential to understand nature than to enjoy and respect its laws; that these laws are both wise and simple; that they are written in all human hearts, and that one need merely question a heart in order to appreciate its impulses.
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I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.
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The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
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We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
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The nature of things is dharma.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.
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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
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Nature is under control but not disturbed.
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There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.
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Nature constantly imitates art.
