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" We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality. "

Abdolkarim Soroush

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" External nature is only internal nature writ large. "

" Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. "

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" A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. "

" Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. "

" Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere. "

" It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. "

" In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music. "

" Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. "

" Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. "

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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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" I'm a private person by nature. I live in my brain half the time, not the world, and I'm not a natural negotiator. But I've learned to negotiate. "

" We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. "

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

" The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. "

" Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power. "

" 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. "

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