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Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
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All mankind
Is born for perfection
And each shall attain it
Will he but follow
His nature's duty. -
Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
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Americans take justifiable pride in the freedoms given to them by nature or God and enshrined in the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
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As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.
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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
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He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
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He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
Household Papers and Stories (1864) Ch. 6 -
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
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