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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bob Kane If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Cass Sunstein If you like dark movies or light movies, 'The Empire Strikes Back' is one of the great movies of all time. It's probably the greatest movie of all time. 'A New Hope' is a superb movie. It's probably the second-greatest movie of all time, but 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Seneca If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions of man, you will never be rich.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Thomas Carlyle If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas J. Watson If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • Alexander Smith If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Caitlyn Marie Jenner If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
    Caitlyn Marie Jenner
    American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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  • Arthur Eddington If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Bob Uecker In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Barbara Demick In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • George Eliot In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Aristotle In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • George Santayana In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • John Muir In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
    John Muir
    Scottish-American writer and conservationist (1838 - 1914)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In film or on stage, in reflecting life through art, an actor has a second take or another day with his or her performance if something goes wrong. Bullfighters are spies crossing into enemy lines. Any mistake, no matter how minor or trivial, is potentially fatal.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Brian K. Vaughan In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Carol P. Christ In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Galileo Galilei In my opinion nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
    Galileo Galilei
    Italian physicist (1564 - 1642)
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