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Quote by Blaise Pascal
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is natu

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. – Blaise Pascal

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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. – Blaise Pascal

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I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. – Blaise Pascal

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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. – Virginia Woolf

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I know Im not known as method. By nature Im not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out. – Hugh Jackman

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I can still smell the green of the grass crushed beneath me. Feel the damp of the dew on my elbows. Hear the birdsong. – Kristina Turner, The Self-Healing Cookbook, 2002, originally published 1987

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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it? – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is. – Eric Sevareid

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I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof. – Rodney Dangerfield

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In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.) – Edward Abbey

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Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes … theyre just friends waiting to be made. – Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein

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