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

Reinhold Niebuhr

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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. "

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" 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. "

" Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton. "

" The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. "

" The ocean is a mighty harmonist. "

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" Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer. "

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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. "

" The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. "

Alexander Hamilton

" The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. "

" All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things. "

" 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. "

" The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. "

" There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her. "

" Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm. "

Emily Dickinson

" If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. "

" What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. "

Werner Heisenberg

" The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature. "

Abraham Lincoln

" We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous. "

" Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. "

" I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. "

" Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. "

Theodore Roethke

" If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. "

" The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. "

" The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. "

Reinhold Niebuhr

" I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. "

" I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. "

" When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed - it becomes part of a greater whole. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" 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. "

" Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star. "