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" 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. "
Miriam Makeba
Nature
Myself
Strength
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" Nature is wont to hide herself. "
Heraclitus
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Wont
" A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space and time, and the structure of our entire universe, may remain 'open frontiers' beyond human grasp. "
Martin Rees
Space
Time
Reality
" For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces. "
Bridget Riley
Forces
Landscape
Me
" The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. "
Alexander Hamilton
Old
Human Nature
Nature
" For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there. "
Miriam Makeba
Keep
Us
Need
" I hold grudges, but I can't hate nobody; that's not my nature. "
The Notorious B.I.G.
Grudges
Nobody
Hate
" I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am. "
Brian McDermott
Nature
Go
Try
" Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. "
Francis Bacon
Overcome
Nature
Hidden
" Water is the driving force of all nature. "
Leonardo da Vinci
Water
Driving
Force
" It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. "
Epictetus
Foolish
Nature
Slave
" 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. "
Diane Ackerman
Childhood
Unexpected
Nature
" 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. "
Marian Anderson
Person
Character
Nature
" The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature. "
Abraham Lincoln
Angels
Living
Memory
" America's exceptional nature confers upon us responsibilities. We are not exceptional because we say so; we are exceptional because, over and over, we do exceptional things - things like what Generals Marshall and MacArthur accomplished putting Europe and Japan back on their feet after World War II. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Nature
America
Feet
" The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it. "
Jesse Ventura
Nature
Human Nature
Communism
" The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at. "
William C. Bryant
Heaven
Eye
Blue
" Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. "
William C. Bryant
Forth
List
Go
" But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. "
H. P. Lovecraft
Nature
Ocean
Old
" All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. "
John Adams
Nature
Constitution
Honor
" It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. "
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Own
Opinion
Nature
" Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better. "
Miriam Makeba
Musicians
Work
Culture
" 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. "
Hamlin Garland
Thinking
Nature
Day
" Gray skies are just clouds passing over. "
Duke Ellington
Gray
Just
Nature
" What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. "
C. S. Lewis
Power
Men
Man
" Nature does nothing in vain. "
Aristotle
Nature
Does
Nothing
" There's no night without stars. "
Andre Norton
Nature
Night
Stars
" In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. "
Hans Hofmann
Picture
Color
Creates
" Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together. "
John Webster
Alone
Nature
Eagles
" I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream. "
Neil Armstrong
Moon
Nature
Space
" The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only. "
Joseph Wood Krutch
Nature
Lonely
You