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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature wa

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 mens apples and head their cabbages. – Cyrano de Bergerac

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Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. – St. Bernard

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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of peoples emotional nature. – Xun Zi

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The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore. – Frieda Harris

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. – Christopher Morley, Thunder on the Left

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You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. Leviticus 19:11 – Bible

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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that theres some intelligence behind the cartoons, and theres a lot of work thats gone into it, so it cant all be just a lie. – Damon Albarn

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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a mans life if he has the weight and cares about the words. – Archibald MacLeish

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