Thomas Hardy | nature
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
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Robert Bork | nature
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man’s nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
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Cyrano de Bergerac | nature
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men’s apples and head their cabbages.
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Hannah Arendt | nature
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
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Thor Heyerdahl | nature
One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.
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Thomas Szasz | nature
No further evidence is needed to show that ‘mental illness’ is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
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Benjamin Carson | nature
We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.
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Sallust | nature
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.