Refugees have been displaced by war or natural disaster or political catastrophes, and they are much more threatening because they are reminders… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
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The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Having a Life is not just measured by the span of a natural lifetime, but also by your successes, your failures, your… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
Under the natural course of things each citizen tends towards his fittest function. Those who are competent to the kind of work… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Sense gratification sprouts from the Ego within, as a deflated human nature. And when this ego is crashed it can go either… — Rita A. Barnes-Enlightened Light Worker Copy Share Image
The conservation of nature, the proper care for the human environment and a general concern for the long-term future of the whole… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
The notions that nature exists to serve us; that its value consists of the instrumental benefits we can extract; that this value… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Dan Brister's book bears witness to the last fifteen years of this bureaucratic madness to tame the last vestige of wild America… — Doug Peacock Copy Share Image
It seems to me that any popular fictional character's appeal is idiosyncratic in nature. Characters with large followings - Sherlock Holmes, Harry… — Jason Lutes Copy Share Image
It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
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Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular,… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
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I'm no Armenian. I'm an American. Well, the truth is I am both and neither. I love Armenia and I love America… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Nature will not let us stay in any one place for too long. She will let us stay just long enough to… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
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China's headlong rush to industrialize was pursued with the most Marxist of prejudices - bending nature to man's will. That's a desperately… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
I considered the British as our natural enemies, and as the only nation on earth who wished us ill from the bottom… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“[Death is] to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave… — Wiley Cash Copy Share Image
“Archangel Raphael This is the realm of healing Love. As natural healers from the heart, you who carry this realm innately project… — Susann Taylor Shier Copy Share Image
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A covenant not to defend myself from force by force is always void. For ... no man can transfer or lay down… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
One cannot use with impunity the different categories of beings-animals, plants, the natural elements-simply as one wishes, according to economic needs. One… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [his grandchildren… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Scientists have a theory that life on earth came from a meteor that crashed long ago. I dont know about that. But… — Zoheb Copy Share Image
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Yes, I will spend the livelong day With Nature in this month of May; And sit beneath the trees, and share My… — W. H. Davies Copy Share Image
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![“[Death is] to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.” —THOMAS WOLFE, YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN” quote by Wiley Cash](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/7a3/wiley-cash-58766_death_death-is-to-lose-the-earth-you-know-for_589563.jpg)
![“A covenant not to defend myself from force by force is always void. For ... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself. For the right men have by Nature to protect themselves, when none else can protect them, can by no Covenant be relinquished. ... [The right] to defend ourselves…” quote by Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/1f0/thomas-hobbes-1127_covenant_a-covenant-not-to-defend-myself-from-for_803261.jpg)
![“I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [his grandchildren are] my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.” quote by Newt Gingrich](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/664/newt-gingrich-792_age_i-am-convinced-that-if-we-do-not-decisiv_2311277.jpg)
![“If I wrote about "being [abstraction]" I would be ignoring existential issues (such as death, limited-time, the arbitrary nature of the universe, the mystery of consciousness) that I feel affect me most in my life and think about most of the time. Another reason is that it doesn't seem specific or…” quote by Tao Lin](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/bd0/tao-lin-3279_abstraction_if-i-wrote-about-being-abstraction-i-wou_1757799.jpg)
