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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
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Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
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Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
Source: Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960) -
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
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Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
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Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
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Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.
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Needing people yet being afraid of them is wearing me out.
Source: Gewoon blijven adem halen (1989) -
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Source: An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity
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