Nature Quotes
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That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
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To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws.
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Appetite for food and sex is nature.
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The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.
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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed. In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
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The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.
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I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all that. I always managed to survive by being upbeat.
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I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.
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A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.
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As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.
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Nature is our greatest teacher.
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Comedy is second nature for me.
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Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.
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If you don’t try to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.
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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
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'A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore.
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Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.
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I try to be as honest as I possibly can about the contradictions within my own heart and thereby get to something 'true' and revealing and important about contemporary American culture and human nature.
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All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.
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Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.
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There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.
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Until you are master over the earth and air and water and fire in yourself, how can you be master of the elements of Nature?
