The study of Nature brings into a harmonious whole the questions of the Infinite, the Historic, and the Microscopic as part of the Great Creator's work.
Robert Baden-Powell
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It's more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. I'm one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.
Dick Van Dyke
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Man is a being of a mixed nature; and, as there is no integrity without its flaws, so is there no man so knavish but that in some things he may be trusted.
William Godwin
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Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.
Jim Leach
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Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.
Mark Hyman
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From the day of the Declaration, the people of the North American union, and of its constituent states, were associated bodies of civilized men and Christians, in a state of nature, but not of anarchy.
John Quincy Adams
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If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
Henri Poincare
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During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal - which in fact it was, because it was nature.
Luanne Rice
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I think I have a dualistic nature.
Bob Dylan
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Politics, by its nature, emits a lot noise.
Tulsi Tanti
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The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike.
John O. Brennan
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There are good intentions behind many people's conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified skepticism about the crap the USDA allows manufacturers to put in our food. But it's hard to ignore the often sanctimonious nature of what some nutritionists view as an 'extremist' way of eating.
Julie Klausner
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I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.
Roger Tory Peterson
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I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, 'Concerning the Nature of Things.'
Dorothy Hodgkin
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
William Hazlitt
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I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.
Jilly Cooper
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Victory doesn't lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it.
Marilyn Ferguson
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce
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It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.
Gilbert White
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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.
Bruce Lipton
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Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.
Thomas Woods
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Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man should not let himself be determined by his appetites.
Max Stirner
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Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
James Montgomery
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