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" The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature. "

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" Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. "

" Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. "

" Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. "

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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. "

" Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. "

" There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes. "

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

" Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say 'we,' I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced. "

" Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly. "

" You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it. "

" It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. "

" I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature. "

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" We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us. "

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" The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted. "

" In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. "

" 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. "

" What's a butterfly garden without butterflies? "

" I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them. "

" One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. "

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

" As the twig is bent the tree inclines. "

" Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. "

" Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen. "

" Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives. "

" The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. "

" It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. "

" All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. "

" I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement. "

" Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again. "