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“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.”— Virginia Woolf
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“Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.”— Donna Leon
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“It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.”— Elvis Presley
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“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”— George Santayana
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“Nature is the art of God.”— Dante Alighieri
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“I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!”— Zac Efron
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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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“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 humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.”— William Hazlitt
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“We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.”— Patrick Henry
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“Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.”— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“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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“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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“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”— Moliere
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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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“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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“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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“Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.”— Peter Ustinov
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“Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.”— Octavio Paz
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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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“The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.”— Dee Dee Myers
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“Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.”— Sai Baba
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“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.”— George Washington Carver
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“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”— Frank Lloyd Wright