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" Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

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" I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura that is outside the body, I cannot measure that. If you're talking about soul as human nature, the rank of spectrum of behaviors and reactions that we know humans produce under certain circumstances, that is measurable. "

Miguel Nicolelis

" He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. "

" They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. "

Steven Weinberg

" When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by nature in inferior to men, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that it was okay to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. "

John Shelby Spong

" We all have these shades in our nature: it's a spectrum within all of us. "

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

Alexander Hamilton

" There is the sky, which is all men's together. "

" It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Pamela Hansford Johnson

" Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity. "

Christina Aguilera

" For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. "

" The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. "

" The nature of Homeland Security is that no news is good news. And no news sometimes means somebody got interdicted at the border, somebody got interdicted before they could get on an airplane, somebody was arrested providing material support to terrorism. Homeland Security means very often something you never hear about. "

" Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. "

" A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have. "

" I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence. "

" You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac. "

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

" The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. "

Reinhold Niebuhr

" Nature was my kindergarten. "

William Christopher Handy

" A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. "

" Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm. "

" For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! "

" I hold grudges, but I can't hate nobody; that's not my nature. "

The Notorious B.I.G.

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

" It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. "

" A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space and time, and the structure of our entire universe, may remain 'open frontiers' beyond human grasp. "