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" Nature does nothing in vain. "
Aristotle
Nature
Does
Nothing
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" 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. "
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" Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. "
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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" Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. "
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" Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. "
Paul Cezanne
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" You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. "
Aristotle
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" The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. "
Rabindranath Tagore
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" The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. "
John Kenneth Galbraith
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" Change in all things is sweet. "
Aristotle
Sweet
Change
All Things
" Little white lies are part of everyday life. If you're in court being charged with a felony, you're probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; you're going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; it's human nature. "
Monica Raymund
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" There's no night without stars. "
Andre Norton
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" The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. "
Aristotle
Young
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" Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. "
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Difference
Good
Youth
" Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. "
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Regard
Mean
Confidence
" Most people would rather give than get affection. "
Aristotle
Affection
Most
People
" Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature. "
Janet Echelman
Think
Water
Journey
" The soul never thinks without a picture. "
Aristotle
Never
Soul
Without
" Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve. "
Sienna Miller
" A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. "
Hal Borland
Tree
Color
Fire
" My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. "
Aristotle
Best Friend
Best
Friendship
" Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. "
Chief Seattle
Waves
Sea
Regret
" Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms. "
Milton Avery
Mountains
Nature
Colors
" 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
" Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality. "
Andy Goldsworthy
Quality
Winter
Special
" High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. "
Camille Paglia
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Educated
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Wit
" Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. "
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Inaction
Nature
Progress
" In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. "
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Nature
" Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. "
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Late
Though
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" The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. "
John Milton
Stars
Lonely
Light