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William Shakespeare quote: "I think he'll be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish, who..."
I think he'll be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish, who takes it by sovereignty of nature. William Shakespeare
He said to himself, that this child had a right to know life before renouncing it, that to deprive her in advance, and in some sort without consulting her, of all joys, under the pretext of saving her from all trials, to take advantage of her ignorance of her isolation, in order to make an artificial vocation germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie to God. Victor Hugo
He that hangs himself is a virgin: virginity murders itself, and should be buried in highways, out of all sanctified limit, as a desperate offendress against nature. Virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese, consumes itself to the very paring, and so dies with feeding his own stomach. Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of self-love, which is the most inhibited sin in the canon. Keep it not; you cannot choose but lose by’t! Out with’t! within the year it will make itself two,... William Shakespeare
I notice a whiff of Swift in some of my notes. I too am a desponder in my nature, an uneasy, peevish, and suspicious man, although I have my moments of volatility and fou rire. Vladimir Nabokov
The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer Dan Simmons
We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is? Stephen Hawking
Both scepticism and wonder are skills that need honing and practice. Their harmonious marriage within the mind of every schoolchild ought to be a principal goal of public education. I’d love to see such a domestic felicity portrayed in the media, television especially: a community of people really working the mix - full of wonder, generously open to every notion, dismissing nothing except for good reason, but at the same time, and as second nature, demanding stringent standards of evidence;... Carl Sagan
The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite. Vilfredo Pareto
Mark Twain quote: "Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that..."
Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. Mark Twain
Michel de Montaigne quote: "There is nothing more unsociable than man, and nothing more..."
There is nothing more unsociable than man, and nothing more sociable: unsociable by his vice, sociable by his nature. Michel de Montaigne
She was seeing the brand of pain and fear on the faces of people, and the look of evasion that refuses to know it–they seemed to be going through the motions of some enormous pretense, acting out a ritual to ward off reality, letting the earth remain unseen and their lives unlived, in dread of something namelessly forbidden–yet the forbidden was the simple act of looking at the nature of their pain and questioning their duty to bear it. Ayn Rand
James Joyce quote: "The barometer of his emotional nature was set for a spell of..."
The barometer of his emotional nature was set for a spell of riot. James Joyce
Abraham Lincoln quote: "I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing..."
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. Abraham Lincoln
We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison. Frank Lloyd Wright
The optimist's pleasure was prosaic, for it dwelt on the naturalness of everything; the Christian pleasure was poetic, for it dwelt on the unnaturalness of everything in the light of the supernatural. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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