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" As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway. "

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" The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

Achievement

Personal

Nature

" The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. "

" There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good. "

" The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. "

" Sound is the vocabulary of nature. "

" For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. "

" 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. "

" In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

Nature

Nor

Consequences

" There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another. "

" The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. "

" You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos. "

" You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac. "

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Nature

Confidence

Human Nature

" Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. "

" In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. "

" My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. "

" These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms. "

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Nature

Flowers

Night

" My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature. "

Claude Monet

Wish

Stay

" Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world. "

" Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. "

Walt Whitman

Beautiful

Walk

" One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. "

" In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

See

Never

Nature

" A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. "

C. Northcote Parkinson

Seed

Plant

Nature

" By nature, I'm an awkward person; I'm a gangly introvert. "

" Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. "

" We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets. "

" Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication. "

" Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. "

" I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

Man

Sacrifice

Nature

" It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. "

" The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life. "