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"It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly."	Anatole France
"We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created."	Waldo Frank
"Nature provides exceptions to every rule."	(Sarah) Margaret Fuller
"The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself."	John Kenneth Galbraith
"It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve"	Galileo Galilei
"Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes."	Kahlil Gibran
"Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature."	Bhagavad Gita
"God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves)."	Stephen Jay Gould
"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased."	Alexander Hamilton
"I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then maybe he's flying along, low to the ground, and the fish pulls a worm out of the ground. Now that's a documentary!"	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power."	William Henry Harrison
"First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily."	William Hazlitt
"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."	Napolean Hill
"We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of regeneration of individuality, liberty, community and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another and with the divine intelligence such as the world has always dreamed."	Dee W. Hock
"Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. (You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.)"	Horace
"History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature."	David Hume
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
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