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" Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. "

Abraham Lincoln

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" In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. "

" I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily. "

" Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. "

" I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union. "

" It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature. "

" Everybody likes a compliment. "

" I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature. "

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

" He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. "

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" Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. "

" Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms. "

" 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. "

" Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. "

" Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. "

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" Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. "

" Whoever dedicates his life to searching out particular connections of nature will spontaneously be confronted with the question how they harmoniously fit into the whole. "

" We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way. "

" 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. "

" By nature, I'm an awkward person; I'm a gangly introvert. "

" Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. "

" It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones. "

" I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model. "

" Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. "

" We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. "

" No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. "

" For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity. "

" I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. "

" I'm a private person by nature. I live in my brain half the time, not the world, and I'm not a natural negotiator. But I've learned to negotiate. "

" The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many. "