Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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Wilderness is an anchor to windward. Knowing it is there, we can also know that we are still a rich nation, tending… — Clinton Presba Anderson Copy Share Image
The etiquette business has its emergencies, heaven knows, but it is in the nature of etiquette emergencies that once one realizes what… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist,… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
“[...] Just because a person has a title doesn't make him an aristocrat. Some people are great aristocrats who have no other… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
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It's fun to play around... it's human nature to try to select the right horse... But for the average person, I'm more… — Charles R. Schwab Copy Share Image
The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In our society, growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts. It is truly the only effective protest, one that… — Jules Dervaes Copy Share Image
There is no author or legislator of the moral law. It is simply valid in itself in the nature or essence of… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
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I have these obsessions that I do not completely understand, with the deep mark, with the ruptured surface, with scars and traces,… — Sophie Ristelhueber Copy Share Image
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
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“If in this life only we have hope…" By God, that was true, too. This quickening divine power that he had experienced… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The very nature of economics is rooted in nationalism. ... It [was] developed ... in the hope of throwing light upon questions… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I've often said why does God leave us here on earth, once we accept Christ, once we're in the family, why didn't… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“When our Lord is about to fashion a vessel unto honour, meet for His use, whether it be of gold and silver,… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties… — John Lighton Synge Copy Share Image
The doctor, if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage, may so add to… — Herbert Ratner Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of nature in man, as Nicetas Stethatos further explains: the carnal man, who wants to live for his… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
“A long suburb of red brick houses -some with patches of garden-ground, where coal-dust and factory smoke darkened the shrinking leaves, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“An analogy to natural language illustrates the point. The letters A,C, and T convey very little meaning by themselves, but can be… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I don't really bill myself as an atheist, even though there is a lot of atheism in naturalism. I would rather bill… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“And then there are the cravings.. Oh, la! A woman may crave to be near water, or be belly down, her face… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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“[T]he creation out of nothing is no object of philosophy; … for it cuts away the root of all speculation, presents no… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
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![“[...] Just because a person has a title doesn't make him an aristocrat. Some people are great aristocrats who have no other title than the one that nature has bestowed on them, and others like us, who have nothing but titles, are closer to being pariahs than aristocrats.” quote by Osamu Dazai](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/139/osamu-dazai-2813_aristocrat_just-because-a-person-has-a-title-doesn_749431.jpg)
![“[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it should meet one of many demands. They insist on making it stand for all the emotional pleasures of life and art; expecting an individual and self-limited passion to yield…” quote by Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/94d/willa-cather-634_art_some-people-really-expect-the-passion-of_890954.png)
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![“[T]he creation out of nothing is no object of philosophy; … for it cuts away the root of all speculation, presents no grappling point to thought, … a baseless air-built doctrine, originated solely … to give warrant to … egoism, which … expresses nothing but the command to make Nature – not an…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/e1b/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_t-he-creation-out-of-nothing-is-no-objec_1722295.png)
