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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Andrew Cohen Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Ann Patchett Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry James People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Bodhidharma People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Sir Cecil Beaton Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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  • B. F. Skinner Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Eugene Wigner Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Oscar Wilde Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Hardy Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • David Hare Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
    David Hare
    British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • C. Everett Koop Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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