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" Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. "
Adam Smith
Us
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Justice
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" Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. "
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" Can I remember exactly when I 'lost' my husband? Was it the moment when I had to start tying his shoelaces for him? Or when we stopped being able to laugh with each other? Looking back, that turning point is impossible to pinpoint. But then, that's the nature of dementia. "
Judy Parfitt
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" Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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" There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. "
Ayelet Waldman
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" There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes. "
Marguerite Moreau
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" Current psychological priesthoods ignore the fact that the profession of psychology was originated by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a physicist who recognized that the key to understanding human nature was the relationship between external stimuli and the brain. "
Timothy Leary
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" The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated. "
Johann Georg Hamann
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" The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass. "
Elias Hicks
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" What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. "
C. S. Lewis
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Men
Man
" Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature. "
Michael Faraday
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Be True
True
" Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. "
Henry David Thoreau
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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
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Nature
Think
" The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony. "
Ruth Bernhard
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Together
Walk
" Gray skies are just clouds passing over. "
Duke Ellington
Gray
Just
Nature
" Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. "
Edward Abbey
Luxury
Nature
Spirit
" Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. "
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Nature
Go
Own
" If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. "
Jon Meacham
Gender
Society
Nature
" Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. "
Rabindranath Tagore
Trees
Speak
Nature
" 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
Love
Human Nature
Lie
" I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature. "
Alain de Botton
Nature
Day
Myself
" I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and sucks their blood, or the survivalists who kill people to save their own lives? Is evil merely a creation of people? Or is there an evil nature? Or is it in the eye of the beholder? I really like these questions. "
Lois Tilton
Eye
Evil
Understanding
" Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom
Patience
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" I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows. "
Jilly Cooper
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Up
Nature
" Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. "
John Keats
Human Nature
Nature
Scenery
" People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature. "
David Baldacci
Human Nature
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Nature
" Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we sit down to eat, but that is our most profound engagement with the rest of nature. "
Michael Pollan
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Rest
Changes
" One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. "
William Shakespeare
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" The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature. "
Maria Montessori
Life
Done
Burden
" Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus. "
Paul Bloom
Survival
Human Brain
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" I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet. "
Joan Jett
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