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" In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. "

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" The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. "

" The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. "

William Wordsworth

" Moonlight is sculpture. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. "

" The nature of Homeland Security is that no news is good news. And no news sometimes means somebody got interdicted at the border, somebody got interdicted before they could get on an airplane, somebody was arrested providing material support to terrorism. Homeland Security means very often something you never hear about. "

" Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome. "

" The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated. "

Johann Georg Hamann

" Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world? "

Alexander the Great

" To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

" If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. "

" I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature. "

" See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. "

Richard P. Feynman

" If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. "

" Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, it's important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing. "

Nicola Formichetti

" Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. "

Annie Leibovitz

" A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have. "

" 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. "

" Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams. "

" The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. "

Georges Simenon

" Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. "

" It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. "

" The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money. "

" When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. "

" It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona. "

Sonia Sotomayor

" Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. "

Albert Einstein

" Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality. "

" I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. "

" Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. "