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" I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have. "

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" Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else. "

" Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. "

George Bernard Shaw

" The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. "

" Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. "

" Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too. "

" We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator. "

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" What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

" In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. "

" Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. "

" Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. "

Charles Baudelaire

" None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath. "

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" When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury. "

" If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. "

" It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. "

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" Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. "

" I am two with nature. "

" To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species. "

" If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. "

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" The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. "

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" The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. "

Walter Lippmann

" Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. "

" I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do. "