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“The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.”
— H. P. Blavatsky
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“I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.”
— Neil Young
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“Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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“Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.”
— Karl Von Clausewitz
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“The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.”
— Thomas Huxley
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“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.”
— Thomas Huxley
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“By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.”
— Hannah Arendt
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“The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.”
— Joyce Kilmer
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“Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.”
— Henry Miller
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“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”
— Richard P. Feynman
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“Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.”
— Calvin Coolidge
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“I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.”
— Miriam Makeba
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“I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.”
— Jimi Hendrix
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“I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.”
— Clyde Tombaugh
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“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
— John D. Rockefeller
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“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
— Coco Chanel
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“Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.”
— Titus Livius
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“I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.”
— Pat Buckley
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“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.”
— Jane Austen
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“I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.”
— Joan Jett
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“Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.”
— Marcel Proust
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“I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.”
— Richard Russo
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“Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
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“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.”
— Salvador Dali
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