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“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.”— Baruch Spinoza
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“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.”— Alexander Hamilton
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“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”— Ingrid Bergman
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“Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?”— Daisaku Ikeda
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“Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.”— Lindsay Lohan
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“Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.”— Joseph Addison
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“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”— Saint Augustine
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“To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.”— Niccolo Machiavelli
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“A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.”— Paul Getty
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“There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.”— Clint Eastwood
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“To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.”— Adam Smith
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“All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.”— Walt Disney
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“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.”— William James
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“You can't just let nature run wild.”— Walt Disney
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“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”— William James
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“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”— Epictetus
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“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”— Charles Dickens
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“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”— Joseph Campbell
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“I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.”— Danielle Dax
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“The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.”— Muhammad Iqbal
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“Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.”— Baltasar Gracian
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“Great art picks up where nature ends.”— Marc Chagall
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“We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.”— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.”— Arthur Erickson
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“I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.”— Robert Louis Stevenson