“I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.”
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“Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.”
“English majors understand human nature better than economists do.”
“Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.”
“People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.”
“There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.”
“We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.”
“Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.”
“As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.”
“I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.”
“I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.”
“Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.”
“There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.”
“The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.”
“Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.”
“The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.”
“I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.”
“The skull is nature's sculpture.”
“Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.”
“Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.”
“The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.”
“It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.”
“A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.”
“Hidden nature is secret God.”