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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
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Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.
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Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.
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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
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Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
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