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" The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. "
Rabindranath Tagore
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" Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills. "
Radhanath Swami
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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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" Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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" By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it. "
T. J. Miller
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" The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. "
Havelock Ellis
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" Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial. "
Bodhidharma
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" Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. "
Diane Ackerman
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" We live in the world when we love it. "
Rabindranath Tagore
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" We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. "
Voltaire
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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 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. "
Dennis Prager
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" Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. "
Gerard De Nerval
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" To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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" Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. "
Mahatma Gandhi
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" Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. "
Margaret Mead
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" On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. "
Jules Renard
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" Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. "
Robert Smithson
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" As the twig is bent the tree inclines. "
Virgil
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" The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. "
Helen Garner
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Rain
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" That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. "
Marcus Aurelius
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Bees
Cannot
" 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. "
Liu Xiaobo
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" 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
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" Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. "
Roger Tory Peterson
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" Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder. "
Carl Sandburg
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" In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. "
Hans Hofmann
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" Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. "
Lao Tzu
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" In nature there are few sharp lines. "
A. R. Ammons
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" Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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" I will talk about two sets of things. One is how productivity and collaboration are reinventing the nature of work, and how this will be very important for the global economy. And two, data. In other words, the profound impact of digital technology that stems from data and the data feedback loop. "
Satya Nadella
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" Earth is a flower and it's pollinating. "
Neil Young
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