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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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" Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself. "

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" Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be. "

" Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing. "

" My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view. "

" The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away. "

" There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. "

" The body is both a temple and a perfect machine. Our bodies have within them a healing potential, and we nourish this potential with the pure and simple foods found in nature. "

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

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

" I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature. "

" Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. "

" Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. "

" Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power. "

" 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. "

" World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity. "

" Nature is the art of God. "

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

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" Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. "

" It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. "

" If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. "

" Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature. "

" The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. "

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" Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. "

" Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences. "

" We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality. "

" I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. "

" Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. "

" In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. "

" 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

" When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. "

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