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" Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. "
H. P. Lovecraft
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" From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent. "
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" Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper. "
Gary Speed
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" Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood. "
H. P. Lovecraft
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" Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. "
Gustave Flaubert
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" When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic. "
Barack Obama
" You do what you like because you just follow your curiosity, and you are happy when you find new things about nature, about how things work around us and inside us. "
Erwin Neher
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Nature
New
" The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. "
Nikola Tesla
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Law
" If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. "
Julian Assange
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Good
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" I do not think that any realism is beautiful. "
H. P. Lovecraft
Any
Beautiful
Think
" See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. "
Richard P. Feynman
Man
Than
See
" To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. "
Isaac Asimov
Cruelty
Nature
Someone
" Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. "
Matthew Arnold
Bald
Mountain
Grandeur
" My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view. "
William Bartram
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Progress
High
" The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many. "
Dayananda Saraswati
Many
Nature
Soul
" Little white lies are part of everyday life. If you're in court being charged with a felony, you're probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; you're going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; it's human nature. "
Monica Raymund
Love
Human Nature
Lie
" A national park is not a playground. It's a sanctuary for nature and for humans who will accept nature on nature's own terms. "
Michael Frome
Accept
Nature
Own
" 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' "
W. H. Auden
Art
Tell
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" Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus. "
Paul Bloom
Survival
Human Brain
Brain
" It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature. "
Niels Bohr
Wrong
Think
Nature
" Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art. "
Samuel Daniel
Law
Before
Art
" The earth laughs in flowers. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earth
Nature
Flowers
" I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. "
John Muir
Fast
Far
Nature
" As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight. "
Jordan Peterson
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I Am
Laziness
" Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. "
David Gerrold
Mean
Laws
Does
" Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. "
H. P. Lovecraft
Haunt
Far
Strange
" Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. "
C. S. Lewis
Miracles
Break
Laws
" There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. "
Robert Wilson Lynd
Nothing
Nature
Man
" Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. "
Dag Hammarskjold
You
Top
Nature
" A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. "
Tacitus
Desire
Resist
Oppression
" I am two with nature. "
Woody Allen
Two
Am
I Am