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" It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy. "

Mercy Otis Warren

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" Clever of me to become a critic. We critics scrutinize and show off to a higher end. For a greater good. Our manners, our tastes, our declarations are welcomed. Superior for life. Except when we're not. Except when we're dismissed or denounced as envious or petty, as derivatives and dependents by nature. Second class for life. "

Margo Jefferson

" Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. "

" I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition. "

Mercy Otis Warren

" When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed - it becomes part of a greater whole. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. "

Arthur C. Clarke

" Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind,' which endows every object of sense with a living soul, which finds in the system of nature whatever is holy, mysterious and venerable, and inspires the bosom with sentiments of awe and veneration. "

" Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature. "

" To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. "

" The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children. "

Henry Morton Stanley

" 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. "

" Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. "

Albert Schweitzer

" Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!' "

" 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. "

" Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man. "

" The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you. "

" Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest. "

" There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. "

Alexander Hamilton

" Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. "

" These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms. "

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

" Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. "

Anthony J. D'Angelo

" Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. "

" External nature is only internal nature writ large. "

Swami Vivekananda

" Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. "

Galileo Galilei

" All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. "

" Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature. "

" In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music. "

" Gray skies are just clouds passing over. "

" That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in. "

Whoopi Goldberg