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" 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

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" I think I've got a real love thing going. I love people, I love life, and I love nature, and I can't see why other people can't be like that. "

" The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel. "

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" The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted. "

" Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight. "

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" During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. "

" Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. "

" If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature. "

" Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower and lender both. "

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" The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. "

" Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say 'we,' I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced. "

" The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. "

" It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. "

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" To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. "

" Nature is the purest thing we can touch and observe. It can be the most beautiful and also the most devastating. "

" Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest. "

" Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others. "

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" A walk in nature is a perfect backdrop to combine exercise, prayer, and meditation while enhancing the benefit of these activities. "

" By 'justice', I understand nothing more than that bond which is necessary to keep the interest of individuals united, without which men would return to their original state of barbarity. All punishments which exceed the necessity of preserving this bond are, in their nature, unjust. "

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