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" The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet. "

Chris Hadfield

Space

World

Look

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" You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor. "

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

" It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them. "

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I Believe

Nature

" Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. "

" 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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" Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. "