Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons.
Martin Rees
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Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.
Condola Rashad
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By nature of the job, most actors are striking, remarkable, and alpha.
Peter Morgan
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Plays have a celebratory nature that no other form has. Theater always meant celebration, a birthday, a reward for good grades. I felt at home in a theater. I loved being part of an audience. All the rules - the audience has to see the play on a certain date at a certain time in a certain place in a certain seat.
John Guare
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The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.
Lewis Thomas
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The thing I love about Norwegian cities is that you often have nature right at your doorstep - you don't need to go that far. That makes it a lot easier to just get out.
Sigrid
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Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Friedrich Schiller
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Joseph Addison
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Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I don't see the arts as competitive at all. It was a better angel of my nature. Sports is zero-sum: winner, loser, demonstrable.
Richard Linklater
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Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.
Ann Patchett
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Honore de Balzac
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I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura that is outside the body, I cannot measure that. If you're talking about soul as human nature, the rank of spectrum of behaviors and reactions that we know humans produce under certain circumstances, that is measurable.
Miguel Nicolelis
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You have to understand the nature of light.
Conrad Hall
NatureLightYouUnderstand
I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.
Peter Thiel
NatureSocietyBelieveThinkTrue
The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.
John Constable
NatureBeautyHumbleWalkManMind
It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique.
Lennart Nilsson
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The necessity for rules and strictness is a way of dealing with an enormously powerful impulse: Germans are among the most emotional people on the planet. Maybe it has to do with the fact that, as a nation, they are always drawn back to nature and the forest.
Simon Rattle
NaturePeopleForestPowerfulRules
The nature of human beings is to eat meat and fruits and vegetables, and therefore we have to kill animals. I don't have a problem with that. But it's a sacred moment. It's a gift of life.
Eric Ripert
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Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
Joseph Butler
NatureHappinessSatisfactionOnly
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
Alice James
NatureWomanManRememberYouShe
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman
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The very nature of 'UnREAL' is that we are provocative, uncensored, and brutally tactless.
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
NatureBrutallyProvocativeVery
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Hosea Ballou
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