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“There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.”— Don DeLillo
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“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.”— Charles Dickens
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“But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.”— David Millar
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“Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.”— Tertullian
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“Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.”— Honore de Balzac
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“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.”— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.”— Thomas Hobbes
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“Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.”— Stephen King
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“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.”— Thomas Guthrie
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“If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.”— Havelock Ellis
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“Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.”— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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“Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.”— Sandra Day O'Connor
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“The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.”— Eric Hoffer
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“Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.”— Joseph Conrad
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“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”— Moliere
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“By nature, men love newfangledness.”— Geoffrey Chaucer
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“All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.”— Frances Wright
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“Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.”— Jack Kingston
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“Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.”— Alan King
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“Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.”— Peter Ustinov
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“Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.”— John Milton
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“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”— Paul Cezanne
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“But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.”— Jose Marti
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“The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.”— Dee Dee Myers