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" Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. "
Blaise Pascal
Nowhere
Center
Infinite
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" We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike. "
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" It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels. "
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" There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. "
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" I'm a boss by nature. I'm bossy. I'm not imperious, but I don't really want people to curtsy low before me and back out of rooms, but I do like to run things. "
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" The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. "
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" 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. "
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" Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? "
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" The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. "
Blaise Pascal
Letter
Because
Leisure
" Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. "
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Waves
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" Law, without force, is impotent. "
Blaise Pascal
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" We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. "
Blaise Pascal
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Feel
" 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. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
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World
" 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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Way
Nature
" I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. "
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Trail
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" It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature. "
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Think
Nature
" Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality. "
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Quality
Winter
Special
" In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. "
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Weird
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Trees
" Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. "
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Lost
Being
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" Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual. "
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" Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. "
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Everything
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Galileo Galilei
Actions
Hidden
Man
" It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false. "
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True
Want
" You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos. "
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" A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. "
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" Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false. "
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" Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. "
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Human Nature
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