Quotes 5821 till 5840 of 11531.
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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.
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960) -
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
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Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
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Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
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Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
Henrietta Temple (1837) VI, 24 -
Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
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Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.
Pensees (1669) -
Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, ''I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.''
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Nature has set us so well in the center, that if we change one side of the balance, we change the other also. I act. This makes me believe that the springs in our brain are so adjusted that he who touches one touches also its contrary.
Pensees (1669) -
Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.
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Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
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Nature is material, but not materialistic; it issues in life, and breeds all sorts of warm passions and idle beauties.
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Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
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Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
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Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
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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 all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.
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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
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