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John Paul Jones on nature
Author: John Paul Jones“It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.” -John Paul Jones
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Richard Dawkins on nature
Author: Richard Dawkins“Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.” -Richard Dawkins
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Arthur Schopenhauer on nature
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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Lord Byron on nature
Author: Lord Byron“I love not man the less, but Nature more.” -Lord Byron
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Leo Tolstoy on nature
Author: Leo Tolstoy“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.” -Leo Tolstoy
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George Eliot on nature
Author: George Eliot“In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.” -George Eliot
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William Wordsworth on nature
Author: William Wordsworth“The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.” -William Wordsworth
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Bernard Meltzer on nature
Author: Bernard Meltzer“Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.” -Bernard Meltzer
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Pierre Corneille on nature
Author: Pierre Corneille“Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman’s quality.” -Pierre Corneille
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John Kenneth Galbraith on nature
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith“The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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Aleister Crowley on nature
Author: Aleister Crowley“Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.” -Aleister Crowley
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld on nature
Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld“Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Blaise Pascal on nature
Author: Blaise Pascal“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.” -Blaise Pascal
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Edmund Burke on nature
Author: Edmund Burke“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.” -Edmund Burke
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Marcus Tullius Cicero on nature
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero“Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Charles Dickens on nature
Author: Charles Dickens“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.” -Charles Dickens
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Samuel Butler on nature
Author: Samuel Butler“Self-preservation is the first law of nature.” -Samuel Butler
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Margaret Cavendish on nature
Author: Margaret Cavendish“A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.” -Margaret Cavendish
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Samuel Adams on nature
Author: Samuel Adams“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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Harry Crews on nature
Author: Harry Crews“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.” -Harry Crews
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Margaret Mead on nature
Author: Margaret Mead“Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.” -Margaret Mead
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Rudyard Kipling on nature
Author: Rudyard Kipling“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.” -Rudyard Kipling
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George MacDonald on nature
Author: George MacDonald“It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.” -George MacDonald
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Isaac Asimov on nature
Author: Isaac Asimov“To insult someone we call him ‘bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‘human’ might be the greater insult.” -Isaac Asimov
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Charles Darwin on nature
Author: Charles Darwin“What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!” -Charles Darwin