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" People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. "
Iris Murdoch
Nature
Flowers
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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. "
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" Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. "
Anthony J. D'Angelo
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" Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. "
John Keats
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" Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one. "
Robert Baden-Powell
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" It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave. "
Sallust
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" 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. "
Ben Folds
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" Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. "
Edvard Munch
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" Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest. "
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" 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. "
George Crumb
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" Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influences human life. But this natural life of the soul is peripheral, mere appendix to the material phenomena of nature. "
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
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" Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. "
William Shakespeare
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" The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only. "
Joseph Wood Krutch
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" By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop. "
Brad Pitt
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" Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. "
Don Marquis
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" 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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" Only lies and evil come from letting people off. "
Iris Murdoch
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Come
Evil
" Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again. "
Gustav Mahler
Air
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" I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now. "
Alice Walker
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" America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think. "
Jerry Garcia
America
Still
Nature
" If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story? "
Evangeline Lilly
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" By nature, I'm an awkward person; I'm a gangly introvert. "
Hozier
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" I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there. "
Billy Corgan
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" The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. "
Iris Murdoch
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Life
" Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. "
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" Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. "
John Burroughs
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Stone
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" I think I've got a real love thing going. I love people, I love life, and I love nature, and I can't see why other people can't be like that. "
Marvin Gaye
People
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Life
" In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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" The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. "
William Blake
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Man
" All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. "
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" Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star. "
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