Quotes with ill-nature

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  • Camille Paglia The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual channel between nature and culture.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Alan Kay The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
    Alan Kay
    American computer scientist (1940 - )
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  • Ben Wheatley The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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  • Herbert Spencer The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature - a type nowhere at present existing.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alexander Hamilton 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
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Anthony Trollope The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Eric Hoffer The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Alfred Adler The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Bayard Ruskin The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
    Bayard Ruskin
     
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  • James A. Froude The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Meister Eckhart The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • John Ruskin The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • John Peers The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.
    John Peers
    Australian tennis player
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  • Francis Bacon The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • William James 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. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Sigmund Freud The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Carroll Quigley The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • William Blake The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Algernon Sydney The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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