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" Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation. "

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" We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds. "

" A tree is an incomprehensible mystery. "

" Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind. "

" Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. "

" Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. "

" 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. "

" Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. "

" I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm. "

" Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance. "

" Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false. "

" Be truthful, nature only sides with truth. "

" 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. "

" Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. "

" Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature. "

Marilyn Monroe

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" Man is by nature a political animal. "

" Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!' "

" High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. "

" Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. "

" Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature. "

" One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. "

" Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. "

" Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive. "

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" There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. "

" Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all. "

" 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. "

" See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. "

" There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. "

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

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" Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. "