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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • B. F. Skinner Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Eugene Wigner Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Oscar Wilde Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Hardy Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • David Hare Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
    David Hare
    British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Emma Goldman Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Camille Paglia Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • George Washington Carver Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Virginia Woolf Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Adam Smith Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Noam Chomsky Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Albert Camus Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Francis Bacon Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Camille Paglia Sade has barely made a dent on American academic consciousness. It is his violence far more than his sex which is so hard for liberals to accept. For Sade, sex is violence. Violence is the authentic spirit of mother nature.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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