Nature Quotes
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If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.
Thomas Aquinas
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He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.
Ray Bradbury
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We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.
Susan Griffin
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To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.
John Calvin
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The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context in which anything other than continuity seemed to be absurd according to the views held until then.
Erwin Schrodinger
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Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.
Elihu Palmer
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The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.
Martin Luther
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
Michel Foucault
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Hair under the arms, for example, he said, should never be removed, for nature had put it there, and evidently it had some use. She had suddenly said, “You have too many children, Mr. Pollit.
Christina Stead
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
Seneca the Younger
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You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
John Ruskin
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Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.
Enid Lyons