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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences.
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In nature there's no blemish but the mind; none can be call'd deform'd but the unkind.
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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
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In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.
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In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
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In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) Opening sentence, p. 1 -
In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.
Contact (1985) Ch. 24 (p. 431) -
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
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In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.
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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
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In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.
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In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
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Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.
Women, Race, & Class (2011) 222 -
It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) X, 29, 1-15 -
It is a weakness of your human nature to hate those whom you have wronged.
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It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XXVII
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