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" As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. "

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" Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. "

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" I am two with nature. "

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" Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way. "

" This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. "

" The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. "

" For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! "

" 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. "

" Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating. "

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" The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. "

" To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. "

" Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. "

" Moonlight is sculpture. "

" The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. "

" A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. "

" Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. "

" Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. "

" Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. "

" Current psychological priesthoods ignore the fact that the profession of psychology was originated by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a physicist who recognized that the key to understanding human nature was the relationship between external stimuli and the brain. "

" Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. "

" The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. "

" We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles. "

" Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good. "

" God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter. "

" It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave. "

" For American foreign aid to become more effective, it must embrace the power of partnerships, access the transformative nature of free enterprise, and leverage the abundant resources that can come from the private sector. "

" I was a spooky kid; that was just my nature. "

" Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. "

" I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm. "

" Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder. "

" I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware. "