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" No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. "
William Howard Taft
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Nature
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" The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much. "
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" When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. "
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" The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. "
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" Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. "
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" Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder. "
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" There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good. "
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" The earth laughs in flowers. "
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" Human nature is not of itself vicious. "
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" Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. "
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" There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature. "
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" The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. "
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" String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect. "
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" The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. "
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" I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them. "
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