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  • Hans Christian Andersen It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
    Hans Christian Andersen
    Deens poet and fairy tale writer (1805 - 1875)
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  • Baruch Spinoza It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • David J. Schwartz It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.
    David J. Schwartz
    American motivational writer and coach (1927 - 1987)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Albert Einstein It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Edgar Z. Friedenberg It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
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  • Adam Weishaupt It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Lord Melbourne It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Barry Mann It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Jeanette Winterson It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.
    The Passion (2007) 19
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Billy Dee Williams It's in our nature. We need to explore and find out what's going on outside of who we are.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Bjork It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Bethenny Frankel It's my nature to run from relationships, because I have never seen a good one.
    Bethenny Frankel
    American reality television personality, entrepreneur, and author (1970 - )
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  • Billy Bragg It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bokeem Woodbine It's not in my nature to chop people's heads off, per se, or rob a bank or any crazy thing I've done on screen. I'm just comfortable reading a book or spending time with my wife and my daughter or watching the fight on TV with the fellas.
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Barry Gibb It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Joy in looking and understanding is the most beautiful gift of nature.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Northrop Frye Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.
    Northrop Frye
    Canadian literair criticus (1912 - 1991)
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