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~ When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away. ~

Stewart Brand

~ All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. ~

~ The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, \"I love children because they\'re so honest.\" There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent\'s signature like a child. ~

Bill Cosby

~ Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm. ~

William Hazlitt

~ Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~

Elisha Gray

~ In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. ~

Karl Marx

~ There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest. ~

Jonathan Swift

~ While the State may respectfully require obedience on many matters, it cannot violate the moral nature of a man, convert him into a serviceable criminal, and expect his loyalty and devotion. ~

Liane Norman

~ Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. ~

Jeremy Collier

~ Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. ~

Cyril Connolly

~ Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. ~

William Shakespeare

~ The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing. ~

Loudon Wainwright

~ Topographically the country is magnificent -- and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak. ~

Henry Miller

~ Good nature without prudence, is foolishness. ~

Proverb

~ Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such. ~

Charles Dickens

~ Man is by nature a political animal. ~

Aristotle

~ A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade... there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event. ~

Nathaniel Branden

~ Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience. ~

Paul Boese

~ Keep to moderation, keep the end in view, follow nature. ~

Lucan Lucan

~ Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual. ~

Anthony Burgess

~ We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature," but the study of emic realities shows, quite the contraty, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such. ~

Robert Anton Wilson

~ Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature. ~

Swami Sivananda

~ Photo sharing, by its nature, is a high-bandwidth offering -- just the sort of Internet service that could be impacted by a lack of net neutrality. ~

Bernard Golden

~ Among the numberless contradictions in our nature, hardly any is more glaring than this, between our sensitiveness to the slightest disgrace which we fancy cast upon us from without, and our callousness to what is wrong in ourselves. In truth, they who are the most sensitive to the one are often the most callous to the other. ~

Anonymous

~ The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. ~

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

~ The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated. ~

William James

~ There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. ~

Al Eckert

~ The less tenderness a man has in his nature, the more he requires from others. ~

Ibn Rahel

~ Injustice can be eliminated, but human conflicts and natural limitations cannot be removed. The conflicts of social life and the limitations of nature cannot be controlled or transcended. They can, however, be endured and survived. It is possible for there to be a dance with life, a creative response to its intrinsic limits and challenges ... ~

Sharon Welch

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