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  • Alfred Nobel Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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  • Lou Holtz How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
    Lou Holtz
    American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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  • Ivan Turgenev However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
    Ivan Turgenev
    Russian novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright (1818 - 1883)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Thomas Paine Human nature is not of itself vicious.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Jane Austen Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Bill Gross Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Leonardo DaVinci Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
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  • Bishop Desmond Tutu I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
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  • Bob Dylan I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Woody Allen I am at two with nature.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
    Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Anne Perry I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Edward F. Halifax I am of an Opinion, in which I am every Day more confirmed by Observation, that Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with Men, or else all the Obligations in the World will not create it. An outward Show may be made to satisfy Decency, and to prevent Reproach; but a real Sense of a kind thing is a Gift of Nature, and never was, nor can be acquired.
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    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Daisy Ashford I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.
    Daisy Ashford
    English writer (1881 - 1972)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright I believe in God, only I spell it Nature
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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